The Day To... See the world

So, I maybe lied a little bit last week. Well, not lied as such, but I was maybe a little bit misleading. Although I have absolutely no idea what I want to do with my life, there is one thing that I know that I want to do, and that is see to the world.

You see, I took a gap year just before I started university. I mostly planned on just working full time throughout that year so I could fund it and I wouldn’t have to be rely on Smart Price food and Supernoodles for three years, but it was always my dream to go travelling (like my Grandad did. I’ll talk about him more on another day). It was always a pipedream and I suppose, in some ways, I never really thought it would happen… not for a long time, at least.

Anyway, the money started coming in, and I didn’t really spend all that much because my parents didn’t ask for rent and I didn’t go out much. After a couple of months, I saw there was a fair bit in my bank account, and I dared myself to dream a little bit more. Then, on a Saturday in December 2007, I was shopping with my mum and I had decided to go into STA Travel to pick up a few brochures and ask a couple of questions.

I came out with a booked flight to New Zealand in two months time, on my Grandad’s birthday.

I suppose this guy was similar; not massively, but he still took a chance on doing something that he wanted to do, and that’s why I admire him. He used to be a computer games programmer, and after his company approached him to help develop the game Destroy All Humans, he decided that he didn’t want to keep doing that for the rest of his life; especially not games about “killing everybody”. So, although a little while before he must’ve thought his dream of seeing the world was too far away, he quit his job and boarded a plane.

A lot of you have already seen this video, but that doesn’t make it or what he did any less brilliant. Seriously guys, if you have the same dream – or any dream, for that matter - and you think there’s too much in the way and holding you back, then do yourself a favour: Stop listening to the doubts, and just do it.

I bet it was the best decision that Matt ever made. I know it was mine.

: )