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Get on with your life! But yeah, like the other folks say, never burn all your bridges. There might be a day when you feel alone again, and want to call an old friend! The world is waiting for you, but it will also kick your a*s - so keep in touch with the people who will say, "give it another shot! " not "told you so. "
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My girlfriend did this a year ago. There weren't any problems with us and it was hard at the time but we both moved on. I really believe now that it is for the better.
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I've done it before. Sometimes you just have to get away to clear your head and find a new piece of yourself. Go for it!
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I know exactly how you feel. There are days when i just wish I could take what was most important and just leave everything behind. If you have a game plan and enough money you should be good. I would do it if I could hahaha :)
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Depends and who am I to judge? Sometimes it is the answer, sometimes it is running away... it depends.
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sounds very exciting make sure you let your close ones your on a mission so they wont worry then travel where ever the world will take you
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Most of the answers I see on these websites are all very insightful and promising, but complicated. No, it's not all bad, but either way you'll have to deal with the negative baggage that each decision imposes. But yeah, if you get the opportunity, get the f*ck out and do something new while you're still young.
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If you feel so compelled, and you have some money saved up, why not? I'd advise to stay in contact with your closest family & friends - who knows when you'll need a helping hand, but sometimes you just have to break out of where you're at to gain some perspective. You are co-creating your life - make it interesting! Good luck with whatever you decide - just remember that whatever your decision, there will be consequences - and it is imperative for you to take responsibility for them.
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It depends on what your hoping to find. No matter what you'll gain some sort of experience, good or bad. You'll learn from this experience and ultimately better yourself, or at least you'll have a better understanding of yourself. Be cautious because it is true that no matter where you go the same problems will still haunt you. Let's say you were to just get up and go, your now living in a place you've always dreamed of, but your still feeling that uncomfortableness you might have felt back at home. HOWEVER. It's an experience, and you'll learn SO MUCH. Your knowledge will be greater and in order to gain that pure knowledge all you have to do is just go. Just go. Maybe at the time you'll think "Why am I doing this, what was I thinking," but I'm sure that won't last for long, and you'll be able to look back on the situation, analyze it and think "Wow. I guess I did learn this. Going really did help me in a lot of ways." It won't be easy, at all, BUT the harder life is the greater the pay off.DO IT!
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I do not think it is bad. I have been tempted in the past myself to start afresh. I think it would be courtesy to your family though to at least keep in touch, even if just to say your safe and well etc.
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I do not think it is bad. I have been tempted in the past myself to start afresh. I think it would be courtesy to your family though to at least keep in touch, even if just to say your safe and well etc.
I don't think you need to say where you are necessarily.
Like others have said though, you can't just run away from problems (if that's your reason). They inevitably will catch up on you and will probably play on your mind. It's important you deal with any 'issues' before you go.
If you go ahead with you adventure....best of luck!
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1. Important is whether you are running away from something or towards something.
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1. Important is whether you are running away from something or towards something.
2. Remember that where ever you go- you will take yourself with you. The real change prolly has to be within because otherwise we create similar realities where ever we go.
Could be wonderful though. I just saw on CNN a report about Christine Noble and her Childrens Foundation. She up and left Ireland and moved to Vietnam in 1989. You can google it.
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It depends entirely what you're "dropping".
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It depends entirely what you're "dropping".
Running from problems just means they will have grown even bigger by the time they catch up to you.
Friends and family are not to be dropped lightly. I "dropped out of sight" for a while and didn't realize at the time how much worry it caused my dad.
Plus I also thought I'd paid off a student loan before I left -- but someone in the bank mis-handled it and by the time a collection agency found me I owed almost as much as my original loan -- plus the trail of what had happened was too cold to follow! (Plus my receipts were scattered over 4 Provinces!) That would never have re-accumulated such a debt if someone had known where I was.
There are definitely thrills and challenges to dropping and going. But something I'll tell you right now and perhaps save you the trouble of finding out yourself: no matter where you go, there YOU'LL be. Even if you try to start anew somewhere new, the one thing you can't drop and run away from . . . is yourself.
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This is a thought that has crossed my mind a lot of late but the trouble is I don't where I'd go. Around Christmas I got in my car started driving and ended up at my childhood home and by the time I left I realized why I left there in the first place. I think for me it's to do with what Flash said about understanding what it is I'm really running from or maybe even running to. I think before you do anything maybe asking yourself what it is you’re running from or possibly toward is the key. Is it a bad thing to think about running? No. Is it wrong? No, not in my opinion. I would just urge you to carefully consider what you'd be leaving and ask yourself if you can exist peacefully once you've left it.
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When I did this it was the best decision I ever made! I got my life back again - although, erm, I did leave an abusive person as well as everyone else, and that was probably a big part of it. Anyhow, there's a lot to be said for getting away from the ties that bind you and starting somewhere new as a free person.
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