Surviving the matrix
I'm currently stuck-in Europe, in a 9-5 job-and I find myself wondering, how do people deal with it? Or is it just me?
I caught the RTW on moto virus a couple years back in South America and I'm pretty sure it's not going away any time soon (or most likely, ever). I've decided that I want to do Africa next, came back to England, got a job, started saving $$$ for the next trip...and feel like I'm going insane!!
I find most regular peeps mad-voluntarily confining themselves in their houses and apartments and cars and jobs, and shopping centres and pubs, voluntarily tying themselves down with debt/mortgages, voluntarily giving up their freedom to explore, voluntarily agreeing to this zombie-like sheeple state where hashtags and Facebook posts have become more real than the world around.. And of course most regular peeps find me completely insane for wanting to just get on my bike and ride around Africa.
I have a hard time with all this conformity and uniformity, I have a hard time taking my job seriously because I honestly think it's an absolute waste of my or any other human being's time, I have a hard time sticking to the exact hours of 'work', I am horrified that every single day, I waste 9 hours of my life involved in an utterly pointless activity; I miss travelling so bad it almost physically hurts sometimes; now and again I catch myself desperately looking for the Cruz del Sur in the night skies; I miss camping in the wild, I miss the open road, I miss the freedom and I am just not sure how long can I take this.
So...is it just me having a bad case of travel withdrawal or is there anyone out there experiencing the same? How do you cope with it?
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