The Boozy Backpacker

When I was a kid, people were always asking me what I wanted to be when I grew up. This always frustrated me immensely. Why can't I be everything? Who are you to tell me I have to choose? I'm five. Maybe I want to be a unicorn.

 

So now I'm a quasi-adult and people are still asking me things like this. When am I going to "settle down" or have I figured out what I "want to do yet"...

 

Um...why are you asking that like everything isn't an option? 

 

Who are you to tell me I have to choose? Maybe I still want to be a unicorn.

 

I want to eat street noodles surrounded by people shouting in languages I don't understand. I want to hike volcanoes and swim in oceans and kiss strangers at parties and get lost on thousand year old streets.

 

Live your life on your own terms and never let anybody contain you, that's what I say.

Be bold. Be brave.

Be shattered to pieces by the astounding magnitude of your own being.

BE ALIVE. 

 

I mean, otherwise what's the point really, right?