Fear Is Not An Option – Skill Sets
The whole reason for me to leave the country was to experience how other people live. I wanted to experience the feeling of community and learn about other people’s cultures. Living in the States doesn’t really give you the true experience. Everyone is busy trying to be like us and live the American dream which can sometimes turn into a nightmare.
By no means am I a seasoned traveler, not internationally anyway. Fear had me going for a while, but I wasn’t going to allow it to take over. It took me some time to unwind and get used to the fact that I was going to another country. It still wasn’t final in my head until I could sell my truck, considering I wasn’t going to be using it. A lot of people suggested that I keep the truck in case I needed it when I came back to the States. But for me that was just another thing I would have to worry about while I was away. Not to mention paying a note.
It took me a while to get everything out of the apartment. What I didn’t sell or give away I threw it away. I wasn’t going to let material things in life prevent me from the full experience of living abroad. After calling Carvana I had a check in my had the next day. Now there was nothing to do but book my reservations.
I decided that I was going to spend some time in Mexico, didn’t make sense to skip a whole country. I did some research and decided that I would spend some time in Leon, Guanajuato Mexico. (blog is coming up)Knowing how much I like sneakers and shoes I decided I would start there, The City of Leon was pretty and modern from what I had read. I thought it would be a good place for me to get to know myself at this place in my life. Sometimes we can get so consumed with our lives that we forget to stop and say hi to ourselves. To be honest I remember sitting in my bedroom one evening, looking around a half-full, half-empty apartment. asking myself are you ready for this? Too late now half your shit is gone.
Sometimes I can be a little boushie, So on this trip, I was true to form. I flew first class and stayed in nice hotels. The main thing for me was safety. That concerned me a lot. Not knowing what to expect or what the laws were. And how would these people feel about me living in their communities? I wasn’t privileged or had money where I could live in the most expensive neighborhoods. I had to live in the areas that I could afford. I had to remember that I wasn’t a tourist but an immigrant in another country.
Now something that started as a desire is now your reality. In a relatively short period, I relinquished all of my worldly goods and I was leaving to check out another country. I’ve always wanted to experience what it felt like to travel the world and be able to take care of and provide for oneself. I do believe “if you can’t provide for yourself, you can’t provide for anyone else”.
In that moment, I would call it enlightenment—the act of being enlightened, aware, understanding, and clear. As I sit here writing this, I’ve been putting my life together from the very beginning, waiting on darkness so I could wish upon a star. What we call wishes/dreams are so much more; it’s us using our words to manifest. In many familiar cases, the caretaker of our wishes/dreams cannot help us build and perfect our skill sets.
I took an inventory of my skill sets both in business and life skills. I don’t think traveling abroad for 3 months or more, is for everyone. But I like a challenge and this was one for the books. No matter how much I wanted to be prepared for this trip, no amount of preparation would prepare me. It’s the start of something new, an adventure never embarked on by you before. All of your senses will be firing off new experiences all over the place. Even laying in bed in a foreign country will be different.
No matter what happens it will provide for the next set of skills I will need. One was such an experience I had, it slapped me so hard that I bounced back into reality without skipping a beat. The universe is a multi-tasker by design. Perfect in everything it does and creates. We need to learn how to accept the gifts it bears.
Quick Pic’s and GALLERY
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