to be a wanderer —

tune-in to learn 3 ways to direct your very own wandering.

– Published in Clear Yo Mind –

Photo taken of Author in Himare, Albania.

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There’s so much freedom in identifying as a wanderer. Walk the path that is calling you and forget the rest.

Wandering relieves this invisibilized sense of pressure that society inflicts on youth and young adolescents. A pressure to create oneself, find oneself, make something out of oneself. As if we’re pawns in a game of chess. We can’t even decide who plays which colour, let alone what pawn to move when and where.

Break it down. Say no. Break free from the game that they want us play. Be your own king. Be your own Queen. Walk daringly. Walk away from what no longer serves you. Be daring, daring enough to wander. Get lost in it, get lost in your wandering. It’s fucking breathtaking. It’s daunting, yet freeing.

Mournful toward the safeness of being still, of staying fixed; yet ecstatic due to the possibility that lays in front of you. Untouched, waiting to be awoken. Awoken within you. You must be the kindle to your light, bring the flame to the match — it’s you who must initiate this process.

Here, I work to display 3 ways you can choose to get lost and find yourself as you walk into the unknown. Wandering doesn’t negate confusion or lack of goal-oriented pursuit. If anything, it denotes the exact opposite; opportunity, possibility, freedom, life-changing ideas, and an open-mind.

1. Use your imagination to curate the life you want.
Brainstorm — think, think, and think more. Being imaginative is the first step toward initiating your very own wandering. More often than not, people tend to get stuck in the rut of everyday life by staying blind to all that lies out there. Outside one’s comfort zone. The comfort of working the same desk job for years, of socializing with the same people since you got that said job, of doing the same things day-in-day-out. Too scared to initiate change, to try; to be daring enough to try. So here, I invite you to be imaginative and think the unthinkable into existence. It’s that simple. Simple; not easy. Let’s get that one straight.

2. Implement change.
Implement one change into your day-to-day that works in priori of your vision. Being a visionary has its perks and downfalls. As a big picture thinker and visionary myself, I can tell you one thing, and one thing only. Use your curiousity, your imagination, and your dreams — as fuel toward what you deem success and achievement. All things great must be started somewhere, somehow. So here, I say start. Start small. It doesn’t have to be anything extravagant, nothing other-worldly.

For example, say you want to quit that job that makes your heart sink as you walk through the office doors but you can’t stay afloat without the money. Carve the time out of your day to research ways to curate passive-income for yourself. If this is not possible, work toward monetizing your passions. You like to draw?… Awesome, sketch once a day. In a month you’ll have 30 works to curate a portfolio. Upload a digital portfolio to a platform for freelance artists. Maybe in two years time you’re a graphic designer or a sketch artist. Heck, maybe now this is your full-time job. Envision it. Sit in it. Soak it in. Grasp the feeling. And use this as fuel to work harder, continually striving for more.

3. Weaponize consistency.
I oblige by consistent effort over motivation. To possess this inner drive to be consistent is the greatest tool you can have as someone who is working for oneself — it’s a weapon. To be motivated is to lack consistency. Motivation comes in waves. Life is ever-changing, we cannot rely on how we feel… on the level of motivational effort we’d like to put forth as the sun rises and peaks through our bedroom curtain. We must make a promise to ourselves to show up, that way as soon as our eyes open-wide, as we rustle out of bed — there is no question of ‘if’… only of ‘when.’

Thank you for tuning-in and reading my silly little words. I appreciate it as always. 🙂