no, we haven't fallen off the face of the earth or disappeared into the wilderness [ if only], we're home & back to reality. back to a reality that, quite frankly, is a total mindfuck. we went from five months of unbridled freedom, to two days a week of free time, with only seven days in between to get our heads around it. total. mind. fuck.
since arriving home we've spent hours upon hours pondering our life. & life in general. & the meaning of life. &, for the life of us [ ! ] are not able to understand how working [ sometimes ten to twelve hours a day ] five of seven days a week while we are at our healthiest & most capable of adventuring, to pay for a life we barely have time to live &/or to sock money away for a future we are not even guaranteed makes any sense.
to be clear, it's not that we dislike work. it's the opposite, in fact. we love & respect work. without work we'd never have been able to take five months off to travel north america in a van this summer. without work i wouldn't have been able to spend five weeks walking across spain three years ago. without work we would never had the opportunity to honeymoon in europe for three months [ & subsequently move to dublin ]. &, perhaps most importantly, without work we would never have been able to press PURCHASE & book the flights that reunited luke with his family in poland after almost fifteen years in canada [ & awoke the wanderlust inside of us ]
all that said & thought about, it seems to us we should be out exploring NOW while our movements aren't limited by the aches & pains that come with aging. NOW when we will benefit from all the world has to teach us. NOW before the sea swallows up the maldives & the black rhino becomes extinct. hell, NOW before world war III breaks out.
so what next?
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