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Being in the now is a hard thing to do. Before I would stay 3 or 4 days at a place and I couldn’t wait to leave for the next place. The “now” or the place I currently was, never seemed good enough. The ideas of the future always seemed brighter, always seemed more fun. I feel I have wasted some many good years traveling and some many great places lost because my head was somewhere else. I never really gave the people/place the time they deserved.

It seems now that I have found the key to enjoying it, but with that there comes new challenges. I now find that I don’t want to leave. I am having such a great time in the moment that I wish I could press pause and that the future would just chill out for a second and spare me a few more minutes to just be where I am.

They say some people find themselves while traveling, for me I now almost feel as I have lost myself or maybe I have lost the Jimmy I once thought I knew.

I think we grow up learning/wanting to be different. We build up these walls that say “I’m Irish your Chinese, we are different.” “I am Jewish, you are Muslim.” “I’m fat your skinny” “I’m white your black”. There are thousands of things that you can find that makes you different and that will make you feel like you don’t connect with someone. I try to look at the other side, I try to find the things that aren’t different, the things that make us human. So maybe I have just let go of some of those things that I thought made me who I am and let the wall around me be knocked down.

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