I myself have no regrets either. I think travelling has changed me for the better in more ways than one. Being exposed to more cultures and more ways of life has made me more open minded,easy going and better able to deal with adversity. It has also made it necessary for me to become very good with managing money and made me able to enjoy living with less when I need to.
Mel
Reply to this Only that I miss out on life at home.
While I am gone traveling, I seem to step into a place where time stands still. But when I return, I return to married ex-boyfriends, scattered friends, breakups, new stores on the corner, old ones gone, and Holiday memories missed.
Reply to this My only regret is not going travelling earlier when I was 18, instead I went when I was 19 for the first time, a year wasted
Reply to this Not at all.
I agree with Melanie that things are missed at home. But to me that's not really a regret...but rather just a reality that I can't be everywhere at once.
It's interesting to me that leaving a good job, leaving everyone/everything I know, being unemployed for a year, and generally living like a bum can end up being one of the best decisions I've ever made.
Hmm...perhaps the only regret I can think of is that I didn't invest in better camera lenses before going.
Reply to this none, well except maybe places that i didnt get to see, or regrets about not traveling long enough
Reply to this Not one. Every experience has been more than worth it, and every day not traveling well spent with friends or family at home, or saving money to travel again.
regrets about not traveling long enough
When you're having a good time, you'll always wish for more time.
Life may or may not be beautiful,
Kuno
Reply to this Regrets, I've had a few... But then again to few to mention...
Oh no, wait that was Frank Sinatra... Hmmm... Nope, no regrets...
Reply to this The traveling? No way. Blowing large quantities of student loan dosh? None. Missing what was going on (or not going on) at home? Nope. The traveling was fabulous and worth any and every sacrifice.
But....I must say, I have several gaps in my resume that are hard to explain (it never ceases to amaze me how many people think travel is a ridiculous extravagance). I didn't travel much until after my bachelors degree, which I got late having switched majors and schools very late in the game. I did 99% of my solo (ie not with my family on a vacation) travel between 2000 and 2006. Years I also got a double-major masters degree. But, at the end of it all, I must say, though I was a vastly happier and better person, I was up to my eyeballs in student debt, had almost nil professional work experience, and the thought of living and working in the same place with two weeks off a year made me feel panicky and suffocated.
The professional student/traveling thing has made it rather difficult to find a job. Other people seem to find it absolutely no problem, and work and travel endlessly and effortlessly. Or travel and come home and get a great job. Not me. I have never managed to pull that off and have never gotten an answer out the people who did. They just acted like I was a moron and was obviously tragically uncool (which may be partly true LOL) and if I wasn't so tragically uncool it wouldn't be a problem. I am from Texas, and people here are neither impressed nor amused by my super cool adventures (not anyone in a position to offer me a job anyway). :/ I'm one of those people if they interview me, 9 times out of 10 they think I'm great and give me the job. But just resume alone??? I look like a bit of a drifter. They look for that steady job bit and it just ain't there. Into the trash it goes.
Does this happen to other people?
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