Life Education
I used to have a friend who had an immense talent for writing. Let’s call him Alex, because I like the name. Alex wrote amazing texts throughout his high school career. He had an incredibly vast knowledge of both the Dutch and English languages, and every time he would find a new way to express himself. He wrote extraordinary poems. Even his memos were beautiful. It doesn’t come as much of a ...
Life is an adventure. It's one of the many perspectives you can choose to see life through. For me, life is exactly that. One crazy adventure, not to be missed. However, that was not always what I would have said. In fact, not that long ago, I thought this life was the most uninteresting place to be born in. I hated it. It was through travel, however - by venturing out into the world, that I came ...
Traveling, it changed my life. Not just a little bit either. Hand on heart, traveling turned everything around 180 degrees for me. It healed me; it fixed parts within me that I thought were not fixable. In this episode of The Inner Picture Stories Podcast I want to share with you all a story, a guest post that I once wrote for the multi-award winning travel blog The Planet D, (and by the way, the ...
I got out of my apartment. That’s how this story starts. To be completely honest I had invested so much time and money into my comfortable crib in Rotterdam that I seldom wanted to leave it. Watching a good movie was almost always more appealing than getting out of my comfort zone to do social stuff. But this was a special occasion. My friend Joao had invited me to a concert (anyone inviting me to ...
