It's nothing like jumping out of a plane, I know because I have done it. All I could think about after that first step was to get back into the airplane, which I found, no matter how hard I flapped my arms, was quite impossible.

If you should find that your trip was as cruel and horrifying as I found skydiving, well, then you have the option to turn around. I think that fact is important to take with you in your mental preparation. Reserve a year, or any length of time you want, but when you travel, decide that you will take it one day at a time and return home at any time if you feel like it. If you in adition keep an open mind to be flexible in your plans, be open to any change in needs and wants that may occur, and adapt your itinerary to whatever feels good at the time, then you will most certainly be okay. It might not even get you out of your home town. The first bit of hardship, like a sore back from riding a bike for hours or lacking the comfort of ones own home, but atleast you travelled as far as you wanted. On the other hand, it might bring you to distances places, you might even get lost for ever as you join some tribe in the Amazon. The point is, whatever you do you do it because you want to, you are not doing this for someone else (unless somebody you really care for wants you far gone, or worse, those that really don't like you but have brass knuckles and guns).

Now, you've heard this before, but it holds much truth. "It is better to regret having done something than to regret not having done something". Immagine living the rest of your life wondering how things would have been different if you had only taken that trip! I think it would be much more frightening to prepare spending the rest of my life at home... how would one deal with that? If you are even concodering taking such a trip, and you have found your way to this website, then you have an extraordinary need to explore the world. This means that you would feel uncomplete if you atleast did not find out what it wa all about, you'd be restless and die depressed and bitter. I really don't see that you have a choice! You must atleast find out what it is all about, you must try. Preparing to stay at home, that is the frightening option. Just go for it!

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