Where’s all the cool stuff?
Since you're reading this, I can safely assume you like travel blogs. You might be a vagabond yourself, or perhaps you're bored out of your senses at work, tied to your desk and simply killing time until 5.30pm.
Either way, I think you'd agree that when reading a travel blog, most people want to hear about freedom. About crazy events, great people, weird cultural habits and breathtaking views(obviously, with photos).
I guess that's how we organize things in our brains - important or just unusual facts and memories stick with us, while all that useless stuff fades away. That's good, but think about how it affects story-telling. It's no surprise we like to read those blogs - they are like an action-packed Hollywood movie, packed with cool stuff in a very condensed form. That's what we want to read about - adventure!
Do I have a point here? I think that when planning our own independent lifestyle, we should be aware of the normal and mundane. Wasting 36 hours on the airport(or even 3 weeks in a dingy hospital somewhere in the mountains, after less-than-successful trekking trip), doesn't mean your trip is a total failure, that's just a part of it.
I guess it all boils down to a difference between having a holiday and traveling as a location-independent lifestyle. You can almost feel the time passing away when you only have 4 weeks of holiday per year. You try to see as much as possible, experience everything. It feels different when you don't have those constraints. Of course, there's always some work to do, you need to have some income. Still, there is no countdown, no boundaries set in stone - you're in control.
As long as this empowering sense of freedom stays with you, you're free to enjoy that ordinary dinner or an evening with a book. Adventure will come, sooner or later.
