177. years

bölcs vagy, ha tudod ezt a tutit is... a fordításhoz is nyilván elég jó vagy – az eredeti változatot csak úgy találhatod el, hogy felhasználod a dőlt betűsöket, de úgy tényleg sikerülhet :)

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  * igeidők (videó)

(from: http://www.wanderingearl.com/why-i-made-a-list-of-memorable-life-experiences-this-morning)

...Have you ever created a list of the first 50 or so most memorable life experiences that pop into your head when you think back over your years?... For a long time now, I’ve been a firm believer that the goal of life, regardless of what path you choose, is simply to be able to smile when it all comes to an end, when we are forced to reflect upon everything we’ve done...

...If you were to make a list of the 50 or so experiences that pop into your mind when you stop to reflect about where your life has taken you… …what does that list look like and how do you feel when you finish reading it?...

Taking a shower in a small wooden closet down a tiny alley in Kabul every morning during my stay. It was a local hamam where most of the residents in the area bathed each day...

...Trying to sleep under the stars in the middle of the desert near Alice Springs, Australia, telling myself I would close my eyes after seeing just one more shooting star…and repeating this over and over again until I spent almost the entire night staring at the star-filled sky.

Eating the largest schnitzel I’ve ever seen with two good friends...

...Being kidnapped in Dhaka, Bangladesh by the most inexperienced and useless kidnappers on the planet (thankfully)...

...Walking around Mostar for a day with several other travelers, randomly ending up in a well-known crepe shop where we ate a lot of yummy crepes while having a superb time interacting with the locals around us for a couple of hours.

New Year’s at a house party in Sofia.

Stumbling upon the fantastic Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb...

...The Egyptian Antiquities Museum in Cairo. I could have spent several days in there...

Staying at the Bengkstar Lighthouse, located in the Archipelago Sea some 25 kms from the coast of Finland, for a night where I enjoyed the complete isolation (I was the only guest), spent time in the sauna, ate delicious home-cooked meals and hung out with the two staff working there. This is one night I will never forget.

Going sledding in Annecy, France over New Year’s and actually having an absolute blast as I tumbled and crashed for several hours despite my extreme dislike for cold, snow and any activity that involves either cold weather or snow...

...Going on a road trip from Budapest to Lake Balataon to Split to Dubrovnik to Cavtat with a local Hungarian friend in a tiny 1970s Fiat.

Standing in the town of Isafjordur in the northwest corner of Iceland, wondering how on earth I got there, talking with some local teenagers and finding the completely quiet and calm atmosphere to be quite eerie, yet quite appealing at the same time...

...Smoking some local stuff with a fellow traveler, peeing my pants and then walking across an island in the middle of the Mekong River in southern Laos in order to catch a glimpse of the Irrawaddy Dolphins...

...Meeting up with a family in Skopje, Macedonia that was friends with a friend of mine and having them take me into their home for several days, invite me to a huge family gathering/party and so graciously show me all over their city...

...Sitting in a cafe in Chisinau, Moldova only to have several people ask me why I was in Moldova and then invite me to hang out during the day and at night, giving me a better insight into the country than I could have ever imagined...

...Meeting so many wonderful people in Ljubljana that I quickly reached the conclusion that this was one city I could live in for a long time.

...Staying with a local family in the mountains of southern Ukraine...

...This has been my life. And when I read that list, I do feel happy. I smile widely and I feel satisfied with where my life has taken me.

I’m not saying that I’m 100% ecstatic about everything of course. I’ve done plenty of dumb things, made plenty of terrible decisions, have had plenty of issues, peed my pants more than that one time in Laos and missed out on a long list of experiences that people who have taken a different path have been fortunate to enjoy. That’s life, as they say, no matter what route you choose.

I wrote the above list because I genuinely wanted to see if the experiences I’ve been through have been sufficiently fulfilling, if the decisions I’ve made over the years have been worth it overall.

Travel itself does not equal automatic happiness. It’s what those experiences mean to each of us, how they match with what we hoped to gain from life.

There are plenty of really unhappy travelers out there in the world and there are also plenty of incredibly happy people who have never left home!