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1 Travel Lesson You Need To Survive Lockdown & Be Happy
I was trying my best to hold back tears while talking to my best friend on the phone.
“Everything’s just so amazing.”
“The scenery is mind-blowing. It’s like something out of an anime.”
…
“It’s just a bit hard.” *cue tears*
Going to Japan was my life-time dream. At 25, it was my single greatest goal and achievement. I had been working towards it for years.
And here I was, sobbing on the phone like a millennial who’s been told avocados just went extinct.
What does this all have to do with lockdown?
Lockdown is weirdly similar to remote travel and work (even if you don’t have a job).
You get dropped in this situation, where everything is changing and you can hear people talk, but you have no damn idea what it means.
You’re stuck inside because you don’t know anyone yet, and probably need to make money using this online work thing. Plus your savings are depleting rapidly. Suddenly you understand why people say “travel” and not “holiday”
It’s scary and stressful.
And it’s just like lockdown.
