After all, why anyone does anything in life starts off with their beliefs and world views. No matter how high you get, you can always get higher. The only thing that truly matters at the end of the day is, are you doing what you find meaningful?
Instead, I focus on my values and what gives my life meaning. Chasing meaningfulness is something that may be hard or even painful. But to me, it is much more important than pursuing money or happiness. Fairytrail is meaningful to me. Having lived in five countries and countless cities from Winnipeg to London to Shanghai to Berlin to Palo Alto, I am in awe of the world and its people.
Seemingly casual moments like longboarding next to an abandoned church past a crowd of Turkish people and several prostitutes in West Berlin to meet my Chinese-German friends for late-night Turkish tripe soup was truly extraordinary upon reflection.
The world is such a wondrous place. To live in one place all my life feels illogical. Like having a big house but only using one room. Having walked the streets of Marrakech and lived in Agadir with a Moroccan college student with nothing but two mattresses and a chair in a room next to a goat pen, I learned so much about Muslim people and how their lives can be so vastly different from mine in a beautiful way.
That also completely blew my mindβ¦. I must say the first time I saw a flying fish from a boat in Greece, I thought it was the most remarkable thing in the world. Under the desert stars. Photo courtesy of skipwithgrace. Or the fireflies dancing outside the window of our cottage on the Amalfi coast.
