🇬🇧 22 years as a nomad

This week I celebrated 22 years of the day I left my hometown to live in another city. It was on the distant 3rd of August 1998 that this happened. And as on any really important date, I look back and see how much has changed, how many prejudices I had and I no longer have, how much I learned, how much nonsense I also did and everything I learned from them.

I had the courage to go around without anyone as a reference, experiment, meet people, places, languages, cultures. And, in the last few years, getting to know myself deeply. And with that I realised a lot of mistakes and successes with much more clarity, which gives me a better direction for the future.

The traveler's experience is different from that of the nomad. The nomad seeks the place that his soul can call home. Or at least that's what I'm looking for today. The choices I made in the past were not so noble, but they also followed criteria of personal interest.

Is there a list of pros and cons? Yes! Pros and cons of my experience, but that can be useful for yours.

Pros:

• The biggest advantage is precisely the opportunity to get to know myself better, to expose myself to new people and situations and to define what I like and what I don't like through these experiences and choices.
• Then there is an organic increase in my social circles. It has nothing to do with social media, but with whom I know personally, who is one step closer to being a friend than someone who simply reads this blog or follows me on social media.
• And there is also cultural enrichment, which is one of the main reasons that made me leave where I was born.
• The freedom to manage my own life, to stumble and get it right according to my own choices.

It certainly has other advantages, but I have listed the four most important for me, the first of which includes many related ones, such as the acquisition or strengthening of characteristics such as adaptability, creativity, assertiveness, and many others.

Cons:

• Perhaps the big cons is never having all your friends in one place. It's about having days that makes me want to just sit and listen to music with a specific person and this friend is hundreds or thousands of miles from where I am. But knowing that even among my friends at school, not all of them remain in the same city, perhaps this physical distance occurs anyway. Or even the distance because one person in the class got married and others are single and this change in focus also interferes with some friendships.
• It takes work to organise things to change. Even having a relatively minimalist lifestyle. Even so, and aware of the job of moving with a cat, there is more change in my plans.
• The choices of where and how to live. This yields a post with pros and cons for each option, but I don't think I'll write about it in the next few days. In this case here, I'm thinking only of the cons. 😂 Most of my experiences in this field were bad. But I survived.
• Financial management. Leaving a life where I earned a minimum wage and had a house, food and laundry for one to manage my expenses, including rent, supermarket and everything, gave me a hell of a job. Today I know where I went wrong (better late than never), but even though I am very responsible with money, or precisely for that reason, I know that this point can also complicate other people's lives.

In the general balance, the positive points are more relevant than the negative ones.

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Nycka, the Nomad