Fabzgy´s Life

Justin, is a guy I ve met in Costa Rica on his bycicle trip from the U.S. to Tierra del Fuego.
About a month ago he got back to the U.S. and today he wrote a very interesting post about getting back from a trip.
You can read the entire entry here.

I m refering to Justin here because I don t think that I could express any better the feelings I m facing when I m comming back.
I ve had very similar feeling slike Justin when I came back from my first Backpacking trip in Southamerica in 2005. From there on I tried to integrate my feelings into my life. I try to avoid television. I take my time to read the Newspaper in the morning. I do not try to be on every single event because I m not afraid anymore that I could miss something. I m taking the time to use my bycicle or public transportation to move around. I m trying to listen to myself, ask myself what I really want. What really makes me happy or satisfied with my life.
I try to get rid of most of the plannings and bondages. I try not to be seriouse and responsible all the time. If I don t feel like having senseless conversations about nothing I don t participate. I rather back out of this group of people who desperately try to kill time while playing card games or talk about tv shows and play guitar, juggle, read a book, work for BeVolunteer/BeWelcome, etc.
Everytime I move somewhere new I see a new chance to change my life. When I first got out of college and worked on my civilian service in Freiburg I became vegetarian and stopped drinking alcohol for 8 months. I had crazy experences with meditation, yoga, fasting, etc. Afterwards the South America trip - a 100 % change of lifestyle. Then I began to study in Freiburg - University, an entire new world. Lot s of new people with lots of interesting stories ideas. During the vacation I moved a lot. Bike trips in France and Italy, trips to Portugal and Spain, escaping the winter in Venezuela and Colombia, etc.
Then finally I ve made it here: Costa Rica. It is a kind of new compromise for me again. New people, new University, new language, new culture, new impressions almost a hundred guests from Couchsurfing, Hospitality Club and BeWelcome. A two months trip in central america. From July on again 3,5 months of travelling.

There is a lot to think about when I m hitting Europe again. I m going to be different again. Hopefully I will find the strength to understand the changes I ve experienced and life the changes in the new life (re-) starting in Freiburg.

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