Who are/were you when you are/were 24?

[buksida]

I was living my first year in Hua Hin when I was 24, work was low paid to start with and opportunities were thin on the ground. But it was work and I was away from where I came from so was happy where I was. However I had left a good career behind so was in a bit of a quandry at times.

I did occasionally worry about what the hell I was doing but eventually came to the conclusion that if you spend your life worrying about what may happen nothing ever will and you'll just end up leading a dull non-existant life.

So get out there, do it, and dont look back.

[linktolinh]

One thing you are all agree in your posts is go ahead and you will be fine.

if you spend your life worrying about what may happen nothing ever will and you'll just end up leading a dull non-existant life

I agreed BUT also you can not spend no time thinking about future. I never think about what will happend, I always go ahead without back up plan, and you can only do that if you are really confident or you are really something. Now I changed, i need to think twice and step still because I'm not from a country that I can easily move around, I have no back up finance and I just on my own. I can not like some of your guys move to SEA to start a new life, I'm in the other position I'm from SEA and if I want to move out I need to be real good because I have no finance support to do it on my own money. And why I want to go out, it's because I want to see myself in new challenges, I want to feel I can do everything.

He he I'm not the lizard king though. So take things easy as it come

Time to live
Time to lie
Time to laugh
Time to die

Take it easy, baby
Take it as it comes
Don't move too fast if you want your love to last

I got a new Job Description to day, a raise in my salary and I have no reason to complain about anything.

I was so down when I got the news because it was my first failure in my life. But life is fair, I think staying home I earn less, travel less but it's a good chance for me to reduce a bit the speed of my life.

[Jaime]

I envy your freedom Link, and if I was you I wouldn't feel pressured to look at the west and what is deemed success!

You actually get caught in a treadmill from an early age and there is a lot of pressure to succeed, conform, settle down, marry, have kids and before you know it - where's your life gone?

Christ! Sounds like my life after experiencing Thailand!

[caller]

Christ! Sounds like my life after experiencing Thailand!

I will probably be mine as well!!!

[stef]

Hi Linh,

Sometimes I am questioning myself to. What kind of life do you want to live? Where are you going? What do you want? Do you want to live like everybody, children, house, garden,....? Do you want to be this independent, self supporting, I don't worry about nothing women?
I stopped my studies when I was 19, to travel and see the world. I should have gone to university but I didn't. My parents wanted to kill me. So I travelled the world for a few years, but I realised the gras was always greener somewere else. I always got to other places and always wanted more, untill I realised that first of all you have to be happy with yourself.
It doesn't mather in wish part of the world you are. Of course travelling is fun,but it's not something that can make the fundation of you being happy or not.
So for me I went back to my country and I started my studies again. As for the questioning I try to stop it. It just makes you sick and only time will bring you the answer. And as long as they don't invent the time machine we don't know what the future will bring.
So I would say live it day by day and don't worry to much.
You are living in a beautifull country and you are ONLY 24.

[linktolinh]

The last 5 days I was on a trekking and hikking trip to a moutain area. I got over myself everyday to climbed over moutains, valley, trek for 7 hours/day... all of that doesn't matter to me.

But when I got back to Hanoi, it's matter to me to see the street fully packed by motorbike and people. I felt lost then. The noise the sound the smell became overwhelming sometime when you want peace, that why I love my city at night time when there is red light warm up the empty cold streets, when there are only few motorbike and bicycle pass by you like you are in a dream...

I feel lost sometime when I'm in the middle of the night in a bar with my friends and I don't know what I'm doing there.

I feel lost sometime when I back to my flat after a long working day and continue fixxing it. I have been trying to fix my flat for the last 2 weeks, pieces by pieces, the work seem will never be done.

so I think the stupid point of all this blaming and complaining is i need my boyfriend here.

[Bamboo Grove]

About funny feelings (not necessary lost), I remember being on the roof top of a old bus in Turfan, China, tightening my back pack there. The sun was rising over the Gobi desert. I really felt I couldn't be further away from home but it was a good feeling not sad. The other was time was in the same Xinjiang area but this time on a mountain called Tian Chi (Heavenly Lake). I was staying in a cottage in a Kazakh village which was by this lake. I woke up at night and went to relieve myself and found a full moon shining over the lake, which was surrounded by mountains. One of the most beautiful sights I can recall seeing. Didn't want to go back to sleep.

http://berclo.net/page97/97en-china-15.html
http://www.globosapiens.de/vbx000/bild- ... 27482.html

[linktolinh]

Talking about funny moment I just got one yesterday.

I was driving in 1 of the most busy street in Hanoi and I saw a guy was walking along the pavement. I saw him from the back and he was so... attractive so I decided to drive a bit faster to see his profile and he is really really cute... ha ha... I passed him and STILL I wanted to see his face so I turned my head back to see him...

Just for 1 second I remembered that I was driving so I look straight again and I used all of my breakers to stop. I was going to crush in a car in a hair line.

Shit that was funny and I can not stop laughing. Can not believe that I'm such a silly girl still, I love that!