3:43am. 4 hours ago
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28th
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2 notes 9:59pm. 10 hours ago
A Loss of Innocence
It’s a very bitter-sweet thing. It catches me sometimes when I see pictures of my family and I when I was younger. Life was so different back then. I was so innocent; unaware of the vastness of the world, and life in general. I can only image the things I was concerned with. The world was so new to me that I believed everything that I was told. Now I am able to think for my own, develop my own understandings and beliefs about the world, take care of and provide for myself. And I’m moving away from this country indefinitely. Such a stark change of life, but an exciting one at that.
4 notes 1:56pm. 4 days ago
May
23rd
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23rd
Simplicity really is a beautiful thing.
Why are people so eager to acquire so much stuff all the time? Way too much of people’s life worth is placed on material things. Things that if broken, stolen, or harmed in any way create an actual emotional pain in its “owner”. And things will get harmed or stollen. The things that are real and that matter are the things that are formless, like friendships, spirituality, and even just admiration of beauty.
People are always looking for happiness, but few people realize how easy it is to actually just be happy. If you’re always looking for it, then you’ll never find it. Just stop expecting other things or other people to make you happy, and choose to be happy with what you have on your plate right now. Give up a few things and you find it to be even easier.
2 notes 4:29pm. 5 days ago
4 notes 4:07pm. 5 days ago
Fascination
I get so fascinated when learning about ancient civilizations. Particularly the civilizations that got wiped out by different races, like the Native Americans or the Mayans, rather than the ones that our Western culture evolved from. All their philosophies, spiritual understandings, and scientific discoveries were lost when they were wiped out. Their knowledge didn’t envolve into our cultures like the ancient Greeks’, Romans’, or English did. When we make new discoveries about these ancient peoples, we’re usually amazed by the type of understanding they had about nature, pharmacology, or astronomy, because we are subconsciously conditioned to think that they were much less intelligent and more primitive human beings than we are today. But in all reality they were just as human as we are. They thought and felt just as clearly as we do now, and that’s what fascinates me about them. They weren’t some different species of animal, they were just humans living a drastically different type of life than our ancestors did back then, and that we do today. I’m sure there was an enormous amount of stuff that we could have learned from them that could have made us happier, better people, or even more scientifically developed than we are now, but is gone now forever. So when I look at historic sites I try my best to see them the way the people of its time saw them, familiar and full of significance and meaning, not just as some historic artifact that should be in a museum.
1 note 1:00am. 6 days ago
Check out staydu.com if you’re planning on doing any kind of backpacking or traveling adventures! It’s a pretty new site that’s kind of a mix of workaway.info / wwoof and couchsurfing.org. I’ll be using it while I’m backpacking through Belize and Central America starting July 17th. Use the coupon code 1889NE to get a discount for your account!
1 note 12:47pm. 1 week ago
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18th
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wherehappinesslives replied to your post photo set: This is where I’ll be living in almost exactly two months!
Are you planning on working as soon as you get there? And like renting an apartment or something? Just curious!
I’m actually planning on doing this thing called workaway, where I’ll work for a few hours a day for these host families/resorts/hostels/whoever signs up on the site in exchange for room and board. It’s a website that backpackers use all around the world to find a place to stay while they’re traveling. You usually stay at one of the host places for about a month or two, but there’s no real limit to how long or short you stay usually. I’m planning on spending most of my time there as a backpacker, just moving from one place to the next, so I won’t be getting an apartment or anything. Some nights may even be spent camping on the beach if I have to!
