MY OPINION ABOUT LIFE

All my life I was raised to believe that life is not easy, I heard it from a lot of people that surrounded me, it felt always that there is a fear, from financial problems, husband and wife problems, children problems, and I thought to myself, well if they all say it, it must be true.

A lot of them said the same things, it felt like life is not such an easy thing to do, and well, they were right, from their perspective.

I never dared to think different, I guess I didn’t know any different, and every time I had a talk with someone about life, suddenly I heard myself talking like the people that talked with me, like some kind of a tape recorder.

To tell you the truth, I was maybe 17 or 18 years old, but well, people started talking with me about life since then, so I did too.

Life for me was: school, high school, army, trip, work, marriage, work, kids, work, getting old and eventually death.

I didn't asked too many questions back then, I was just following the rest, because everyone else did, it looked "normal".

When I started to travel I met so many kinds of people: rich, poor, happy, sad, optimists, pessimists, people that look for answers and people that found them.

I heard and saw a lot of people that lived differently then what I have ever saw, musicians playing on the streets, hippies that just sharing love , artists of everything you can think of, volunteers in animals farms ,tourists that became hostels owners, people that randomly decided to live in a place they liked, people that traveled and worked and even 2 friends that were 6o years old or more that traveled for more than 15 years now, and counting, and when I asked why, they said it's what they like the most.

Suddenly I saw so many ways to live life, that there is no one way to do it, some people didn’t cared about carriers, houses, cars, children, they just wanted to experience, it really was inspiring, but well, it was kinda unreal for me back then, because I thought this is not "the real life" that everyone talked about.

When I came back from the trip I started realizing more and more what those people were doing, why they decided to live differently, I saw the type of life, "the real life" that most of the people were living.

I stared asking myself questions like why do people need to work so hard, why people dedicating their life to work, why money is always the purpose, and then I said, well, if you want a house, car, food, provide your children, you need to work, and I was 25 already so I said to myself, that's it, it's time to "start your life".

From what I understand, starting life means, gathering yourself together, start working or study somewhere, save money, find a future wife some were in those few years, like everyone else was doing.

You know, most of us don’t even think if this is what we want, we don’t have the time, we are always busy working and saving money and planning for the future.

I don’t want you to get me wrong, like I said there are many ways to life our life and this is one of them, I'm just giving you examples of how we can live them.

I really think we should ask ourselves more questions, about our life, our jobs, our way of thinking, are we really thinking or it's just the other people's opinion that became our opinion.

Most of us don’t think too much, we listen to the older people, the ones that had some experience in life, and we follow them, without asking too much, because we trust them in what they say.

Sometimes we didn’t hear them, for some of us it helped for some of us it didn’t.

In my opinion there is one problem, we didn’t asked ourselves first, we were afraid that maybe we think too big, we dreaming too much instead of living the "real life", a lot of us didn’t dare to live or think different, because everyone will say it's not normal, because it's not what everyone else is doing, because maybe we won't succeed of doing or living like we wanted, we were afraid to be wrong.

I thought that too, I was so fucking afraid because I didn’t know how I want to live even, where I want to live and what I will do, I was pressuring myself to find answers, to realize what I wanted to do, people told me I need to start my life, get in the routine, save money.

From one side I understand them, they all went throw this age, some of them went through more some of them less, but still, they choose a way of living that I was not sure I want to live.

It's amazing to see how people react when you don’t think like them, when you don’t want to live like they live, they all tell you that you are wrong.

In their mind they all think they help you, but to tell you the truth, most of them are saying the same things other people told them, almost all of them experienced what they tell you, that’s why they are sure of what they are saying.

In my opinion there are some things they didn’t thought about:

First of all, whatever they experienced in life, it's theirs, not mine, second, most of them didn’t try to act or think differently than their surroundings so how can they tell if something different is wrong, third, if they failed in something and didn’t fight for it, how can they say you won't succeed either?

I'm not talking about not earning money, or not having a job, or not having a family, for now, money is something you need to have to do things you like, the question is what kind of a job you want, what do you really like, what kind of a life you want to live, do you prefer buying a house or travel the world, do you want to get married of stay single.

Back then I thought there is one way to live, but after what I have seen, in my own eyes, I tell you that life is whatever you decide it is, you can work from morning to evening, you can travel the world for the rest of your life, you can get married or stay single, you can buy a house or live in a trailer, you can be a millionaire or be broke, it's your decision, just know that whatever you decide, with yourself, it's ok, its normal, it doesn’t need to be normal for all people, it needs to be normal for you, everything is possible in this world, every way of living that you think of exists in this world, don’t let anyone change your true way of thinking, way of living, it is your right to live how you want to live, even if it’s only a dream for other people's eye, it is your dream, and you can fulfill it.

Life is so much more then school, high school, army, trip, work, marriage, work, kids, work and death, it is an amazing thing, it is an adventure, it is a journey, from the moment we step into this world we are experiencing, every day, every moment, don’t let anyone take that experience from you, it is yours, your life is your own life, not your family's, not your friend's, not your wife's or your husband's, it is batter following your heart than following people's steps.

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