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i took a gap year to travel the world.

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  1. As someone who became a father at the age of 17 and am now 28 and have been working my ass off ever since i was a kid to achieve my dreams only to be kicked down time and time again i envy you young man. Live life and enjoy the time and make some great moments/ memories because time flies and you've done what i have dreamed my whole life doing. Travelling the world and meeting/helping new people. New subscriber continue the grind you got this!

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  4. After watching your video, I feel like I'm less alone knowing there's other people who feel like this too. I dropped out of college because I was losing track of me and my mental health. It took a complete toll on every aspect of my life. It's been a year since I dropped out and four years since I graduated high school. I can most definitely say that right now I feel so much more like me. I'm still trying to figure out how to even get started on the things I want to do but I know where I want to go. Thanks for showing all the ups and down in this. Keep it up!

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  5. Im 17 years old. I haven’t got a drivers license, yet I got a job as a fry guy. I saw your videos, and it gave me wanderlust, a wanting to be free. Im learning the drivers manual, gonna take the test soon. After that I’m gonna save for a car, but before that, I am planning on getting stuff to travel with. I want to live a year if possible, outside of the place we call normal. Taking risks, meeting new friends. Just stuff like that thrills me. I love your videos because it shows that something like that is possible. Thank you Simon. 😊

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  14. Russia 🇷🇺
    Mongolia 🇲🇳
    China 🇨🇳
    Japan 🇯🇵
    South Korea 🇰🇷
    North Korea 🇰🇵
    Taiwan 🇹🇼
    Philippines 🇵🇭
    Indonesia 🇮🇩
    Timor leste 🇹🇱
    Brunei 🇧🇳
    Singapore 🇸🇬
    Malaysia 🇲🇾
    Thailand 🇹🇭
    Cambodia 🇰🇭
    Vietnam 🇻🇳
    Laos 🇱🇦
    Mayanmar 🇲🇲
    Bangladesh 🇧🇩
    Bhutan 🇧🇹
    Nepal 🇳🇵
    India 🇮🇳
    Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
    Maldives 🇲🇻

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  21. Hi Simon.
    I’m probably a bit late😅, but hopefully not too late to share. I’m still pretty young. I have a good amount of years before college. A lot of my friends know what they want to do. I never see them question or doubt. They’re so confident that it’ll work out. When someone asks, “what do you want to do when you grow up?” its always one direct answer. I usually say i want to be a doctor, or a denist or something that my parents recommended would be best. my parents are supportive, and i’m so greatful for that, but there’s something always telling me to not let them down. like everything will be messed up if i can’t manage to get a successful job like they did. They are so strong. they came from a poor family, and now they are happily living. I’m the only kid. Well getting to the point, i litterally have 0 idea of what i want to do. What to say to that one question i dread. the thing is, i don’t know if i want to spend the rest of my life being at work for so many hours to the point where home is the the place you sleep and then leave. i don’t want to be stuck that way until retirement and then lonliness. I have so much respect for everyone and i know most are okay that way and im not trying to shame anyone, but I don’t want the only time where i can be free is when i’m old. getting ready for work, working, getting undready, and repeat. i know of course i’ll have to work. but the idea of everything being an endless loop scares me. i don’t know who i am. i don’t know what i will be. but the one thing that i always told myself is that whoever i may be the thing i want to be is happy. happy knowing i achieved something, happy knowing the people around me are happy, happy knowing i played a role in this world. sure being a doctor sounds nice, but i don’t have a real reason in my heart to. I know i’m still young, and i have time. But i just know that time will go by fast. so i guess i have to make the most out of it.

    I promised my best friend that we would travel the world together. Japan, especially. every summer when i go on vacation with my family is one of the only times i actually feel… alive. I see the world so far from my small suburban hometown that litterally nobody has heard about, and i wonder if this is even the same world. it felt so surreal. I’ve traveled a good amount. London, Washington, NY, Hawaii, Canada. None of them felt long enough. But i am so greatful i even got to go. every summer I realize, “I am alive. I am here.” Utill it’s time to go back to school and reality.

    School is like a nightmare and a dream. I met all my good friends in this very building that i am about to leave this year. I couldn’t do it without them. The one thing abiut school is that you dread going to it but sometimes dread leaving it for the last time even more. A lot of my friends are going to different schools next year, and to be honest i’m scared. But i realize i’ll meet new, amazing people just like them.

    Thank you for making this video. So even though i don’t know what will happen in my life, maybe i’m okay with that. Okay with having no idea.

    It just means that i’ll have to go and find out myself.

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  25. i’ve felt so much pressure my whole life to know exactly what i want to do and who i want to be. i’m realising now, at 17, that going to university is the wrong call for me, so i think i’m taking a gap year next september. i want to travel but i’ll need to work for the money first and plan. how do i plan travelling alone at 18/19 and find places to stay?? ❤

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  34. I took a year off of work (at 38!) and it was the most amazing year of my life. I remembered who I am and who I want to be – I met my best friends and returned home ready to find and meet my (now) husband. Travel is always a good investment. So smart of you to listen to your heart and do what felt right (even if it wasn't popular). Your travels will pay dividends for YEARS.

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  37. I wish that I studied more, socialized more, and grinded more, but I didn't. I was too engulfed in my thoughts, thinking that I'm not smart enough, athletic enough, charismatic enough to amount to anything. I was just there rotting, thinking that everyone was out to get me, I would see any kind of good gesture as a scheme to trick me, anyone that were very friendly towards me I pushed them away because I thought they were simply putting an act, just to look good by the public eye, but it was all in my head. I wish I could go back in time and tell myself, "To let go and live on, all this overthinking is killing you, study we're probably not smart but that's what we're here for, you have to spin a gear to get the others going. Things probably won't go as smoothly, but it's better to try than do nothing. I know that you're thinking everything is determined by luck, but luck only happens to the ones who position themselves to get that luck, if that even makes sense. Things aren't bad yet, just your mindset. " My future self would probably tell me the same, but I am trying, but as much as I want to move forward, I can't keep up the lie that I have faith, I know what has to be done but it's almost like I can't fully convince myself that this is how it's supposed to done.
    I just wanted to drop a water in the well so that someone else can bottle it up and gain something from it.
    I'm sorry if it doesn't make sense but I tried my best to put my thoughts into words, I'm not seeking for help or anything, I'm just doing this instead of writing this down on a diary or something.

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