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What's Stopping You From Living Your Life?

While you have the chance now, go out and see the world.

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What's Stopping You From Living Your Life?
Alana Person

"Have you ever thought about traveling the world?" or "wonder what it would be like to experience a different culture?" And if you have, "how many times did you actually make that come true?"

I am here to tell you to go on adventures now and not just wait around and tell yourself I will do it later because what happens when later becomes never? What happens when you start living the same day over and over again until you die? I am here to encourage you to go out into the world while you are young and able. Go on an adventure on the other side of the world that will be so unexplainable that you cannot put into words. Experience a different culture you have never experienced before because you will learn more about yourself than you did back at home. Get lost in cities you have never been to before, because in that moment you find yourself.

As a college student, I am here to tell you how to find a way to travel the world. Most colleges offer study abroad programs, internships overseas, volunteer programs and mission trips, use these opportunities to go out into the world you never known existed or to get involved with the communities overseas, so not only you experience a different culture but you get to live it. "Why not start traveling now, what is stopping you, yourself"?

Here is one of my favorite quotes by Victoria Erickson: "Refuse to be that person like so many others is still driving down the same road, years down the line, mournfully longing to go back in time to be given just one more chance to take the road that they know they should have taken because they dismissed all possible extraordinary signs. It'll never get easier to make the leap and this is your chance; so make the change now. Take the road now."

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