Let's Just Live Now

It’s only my been two weeks since I left New Zealand, and it already feels like a lifetime. With a variety of experiences, from spending a few days visiting tribes in the mountains, to spending a week with a local community, and backpacking around beautiful places. In this short amount of time, this is what I’ve realised: Yes travelling is incredible. You see beautiful new places, you see scenery like never before. You see the beautiful sunrise and mind blowing temples. But what I’ve realised that is the most important thing of travelling, is not only the beautiful locations, but more importantly the people you see them with. It’s not observing, but mentally learning the culture and physically living it. The true learnings come when you open your mind up to a whole new way of living. Learning to speak a new language is extremely rewarding. It shows that you truly want to bond with the person across from you. I found it as a way to respect that person, to link that bond that...

Hello friends! Hope you’re all doing well, the new year has kicked off hella awesome, and new adventures are coming up for you.  For those of you who know, I have had the amazing opportunity to make my way to Thailand. And if you know me well, you know I’m already processing every little thing that’s happened. So I wanted to talk about one thing that has really come up in my mind, the concept of oneness.  Imagine this. You walk up to a stall, pull out your translation book, and ask for one Papaya salad in the most convincing Thai you possibly can. The lady stares  at you with a blank look on her face. Her poor brain trying to process what this young girl is trying to say. Next scene, you want to ask for a fork, so you go up the young girl  and with your best sign language you imitate forking out your food. She laughs at you, grabs the food with her hands and puts it in her mouths. You laugh together at your foolish western self. However, that look of ...