Gap year...yes...few weeks/months per year...
mid-twenties crisis...well...wish so...but it's more like mid-thirties crisis....which will last forever...
pre-kids...euh...not anymore...they are nearly 7 and 9!
mid-life crisis...oh yes....but I've got it since I'm 12 if I remember well!
career break...no way...I love to much what i'm doing...till I find something better....but that could take 20 more years!
satisfying a case of wanderlust...is not ultimate goal in life trying o make it better than yesterday and enjoying a lot of lust...at least if we can....
something I have to do before I die...I want to try to do everything I can before I'm 40....and than...just start again....
get me out of there..would be more...get me in it all the time, wherever it is....
Sorry Mell....I've got no ideas which one I could really be...but at least I tried!
Reply to this I think it might be a mixture of many of them too.
When I left high school I was the GAP year student.
I did not have the type of job that could be described as a promising career in my mid 20s. That was the actual crisis at the time. :D Lack of travelling certainly wasnt.
Pre kids - Yeah, when I finally got a professional type job which I needed qualifications for, I did lots of over time in exchange for time off to travel. That was the pre kids thing that lasted until my daughter was born. Then a little travel and a lot of financial problems followed. Then the financial problems ended.
Since the financial problems ended there has been a mixture of 'satisifying cases of Wanderlust', 'get me out of here'(this one happens when I need some time to reexperince temporarily the freedoms of being single and childless), 'the things to do before I die' and 'spend the kids inheritance'(my daugher can have my appartement when I die. That should give her a good financial boost with whatever she chooses to do. I am going to spend the rest of ''her inheritance'' on having a good time. )
And I suppose I could call my travels of the next few years the mid life crisis ones, even if I dont have the bulge or the depression.
But, if travelling is a symptom of crisis in life, then my whole life is a crisis. :D But, I dont think so. Travel is just something I consider to be part of my life from birth to death. There are no phases really, just more travelling and then more after that.
Ali, I think a new cathegory is needed in the list of Traveller types to explain me and Peter. What about 'the travellers, who travel as a lifestyle'.
Reply to this I am a student but only part time. But I would actually say being a student is just plain getting in the way of my travelling. I only go to college one day a week as a mature student doing a Law degree and have two years to go but I am gagging to just get up and go NOW but have 2 more years of my degree which I want to get out of the way beforehand.
So I fit any travelling into the summer holiday when I don't have to worry about studies at the moment!
Reply to this All of the above !!! (except Pre-Kids or Pre-house Splurge, Mid-Life Crisis)
i am probably one of those classic confused types... for a 3rd person taking a peep, my lifes great! but i kinna hate most of it ! the only thing i like doing is travelling.... its like searching myself, searching for what i probably will fall in love with, searching for where i finally fit in !
Reply to this Definetly Pre-kids splurge! I want to travel, travel, travel before a small angel takes up all my time and energy. But even when that small mirakle arrives sometime in the future we will find a way to keep travelling. 😊
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