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Originally Posted by Burulbash
With all respect, follow your instincts, make a child or two. GL in your journey. 5*
Not sure to follow the 2nd advice here (hehe) but thanks !
Bye friends, I’m traveling the world
Yesterday morning I drove for about 5 hours to go and see my very best friend Loic, and his wife Myriam.
We've been knowing each others for more than 30 years and he lives in a gorgeous house in a "state" (in france we call it "région") called Bretagne.
I love him, he's my buddy, a very kind and sensitive person like you don't meet anymore. I arrived at his house at 4pm and we enjoyed this precious time until 1:30am. I couldn't stay awake anymore after such a long drive trip and needed to sleep. During the evening, we went eating on a gorgeous and quite good restaurant near the Port (lovely place) and then ended the evening back home drinking a very good Cognac before finishing the night around a good Irish Coffee that he and his wife made for the occasion. All this in front of a beautiful fireplace. It was really neat.
This morning I woke up at 8am and left at 9:30 for another 4,5 hours drive to get back home.
When we said goodbye to each other I felt moved. I'm leaving in 5 days for some undefined time and who knows when we will see each other again ? Maybe in 1 year, maybe never if something happens to me (I don't think about that at all but we never know with Life, right ?).
I will miss them, they are so kind. In fact, I already miss them.
Before leaving next week I will call my other best friend Charles. With Loic we all three grew up together. Unfortunately I will not see him before leaving since he's too far from my house. I will make call him from the airport. Of course, I will also call Loic again just before the plane takes off.
At last I will call my other buddy Aymeric who has been of a tremendous help in my preparation to this world travel. A very smart guy who traveled quite a lot and knows so many things about travels ! Besides, he's been to Varanassi so he gave me a couple of contacts and I'm very grateful for both his kindness and his help. Aymeric, if you read this, thanks a lot my friend !
At last, when going to Paris next wednesday I will also go and see my other very good friend Simon. A 45 years old married man, DVD seller, who is someone I love very much as well. His plan is to leave France as well and since he's jew he's planning to settle down in Israel with his familly (wife&little girl).
I love all these people and although I'm happy quitting my country and starting this world travel, I do realize how friends are important in our life. I don't have that many but the few that I know are genuine and truthworthy people. I understand now the reason why so many world travelers talk about how it can be tough to travel the world being so far away and for a long time from familly and friends. I almost don't have any familly anymore now - my mother died in 2008 and my father passed away 6 months ago) but I have those friends and for sure it will be tough not to see them again.
Thanks god nowadays we can keep in touch with various means : Skype, Whatssap, emails. Better than nothing but nothings beat an evening like the one that I had yesterday, face to face with a friend.
I do realize that even when you think that you can live all by yourself, you're still bound to things or people. In my case people. Not many of them, but they are important to me and knowing that I will not see them if I wish makes me feel sad.
But hey, that's my journey, this is what I want, so this is how it has to be.
Five days. Yep, no more than five days to wait, I just can't believe it. How am I feeling ? Honestly, I don't know. I think that I just can't realize that I'm really gonna leave and travel around the world. Something I've been used to talk about and now it is becoming something real.
I'll try to keep in touch as much as I can with my friends. They have their life and I have mine, but these are important people to me and I feel lucky to have all them as friends.
I will try to rest tonight. 9 hours driving since yesterday so I'm feeling so exhausted right now and I still have so many things to do. Gosh, I feel like I'll never make it.
(Psychoworldnication)