It was almost a year since I came back from NZ, I still bombarded with questions when friends found my adventures at NZ. My story telling moments never ends. Some were stunned by my action while some just envied on what I did. I have answered this question many times, I lost count of it. “What’s make u want to runaway from Malaysia became a solo backpacker for 6 months?” Just imagine if I continue to stay in the comfort zone for another 6 months, doing the same thing and living in the same environment, maybe I will have a greater height in my career. While my short 6 months life in NZ, I encountered and experienced so much; happiness, sadness, loneliness and hopelessness. I have seen through so much and stretch myself to the maximum limit by throwing myself in a place full of stranger and taking step by step to live like them, eat like them and work like them. I can never be one of them but I can at least try to experience to be just one of them.
There were times, I walked past the breezy cold streets every single thing was a stranger to me. I knew no one and I had no one there. It was the tiny yet strong will that made me to move on and embraced the moments.
In the end, I lost something and I gain something. It's hard to make a decision that goes against what everyone else in my life wants me to be, but everyone is entitled to make their own decisions. This decision had made me to become a better person.
The greatest side achievement is to be able to encourage friends to do the same, if I can do it they can do it too. I feel proud to have another friend is following my footstep.
welcome to the uncertain backpacker life! Life was like a roller coaster, no planning, no idea how long u will stay at that place, uncertain on when will be your next destination ..
Gosh .. Talking to her makes me so tempted to do it again!
9 years ago