Amber Blair
auburnsun
Amber Blair
Just a few months ago, I was approaching the ten year anniversary of a career that I stumbled into during college. This career, this single focus of my adult life, had left me burnt out, disenchanted and if I'm being a bit dramatic, a shell of the person I wanted to be. So, after an incredible amount of introspection and research, I decided to quit my full-time, quite lucrative job in order to travel around the world.
I'm doing this because I believe that I will learn from new cultures how to improve my life. That we are raised to desire the "American Dream" - big house in the suburbs, nice cars, lots of material possessions - and that all the stress, multi-tasking and compromises required to live this dream do not feel authentic to me. That sometimes you have to make a drastic change to shake up your life. That the desire to explore and see new things is fundamental to who we are as humans and the only way to really see how the world works and be inspired by it is to see it yourself.
I’m still in the planning phases, but I wanted to start sharing my journey now, as the preparation for such a thing is as much a part of the experience as the actual travel. Come along!
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the things that you did do. So throw off the bow lines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain