Its hard to feel too far from home when you: a) spend more time in your vehicle than you do any one place; or, b) stop feeling like your home is an actual “place.”
So, what’s wrong with the life of a professional wanderer? Is there anything?
I know people who do it. Personally, they’re the larger-than-life characters with more stories about more experiences by the time they’re 30 than most accumulate in an entire lifetime.
Some of the greatest characters from history were professional nomads – no place to lay their heads.
So, what is it about them? What is it about that lifestyle that so many people always WISH they did or could but seem to never get around to it… or… find an excuse not to…
Is it fear? Is it the fear that you might get hurt or something bad might happen? If you go through life like that, nothing would ever get done. A little chance is part of life: invest that money, chase that story idea, fall in love… Surely its not fear!
Is it some sort of external force? “Oh, people will talk about me because I left my 9-to-5 and just left.”
So? What if they do? Are you living your life for them or for you? Yeah, if you have a wife and kids then, of course, that’s a little different.
But… wouldn’t it be cool to find that companion in life that wanted all that stuff, too?
That could be straight from the storyboard from the movie “UP!” wouldn’t it? A story in which an old man heads out after his wife dies after spending their lives together to find the place in which they always wanted to go but never had the means… only to find that the real story – the one that actually meant something – was the one that they made together on a daily basis.
I ask you, then, referring all the way back up at the top: where is your home? Being a nomad does not necessarily imply being by yourself.
“Turns out not where but who you’re with that really matters.” ~Dave Matthews
Stay tuned,
-Noah D.
