Sometimes I have a feeling that I’m the happiest human being on earth while traveling. It’s not because I have no problems in my life, no. It’s just because I learned to see bad things from the positive side or not even look at it and keep moving on.
Recently, and as you have seen in my last posts, a lot of bad things happened on my trip. My phone and my Gopro fell down and got broken, every shoe that I bought to skate with got tearing in the first week. The Malawian visa that got expired before I reached the border and I was forced to pay (about $75). again. The funny story in Mozambique when I added one more day to the country and I had to pay $100. This week I got stolen, someone took all my $$ from my backpack and I ended up in the middle of nowhere with only $5 in my pocket. I was forced to go as fast as I can from Malawi to Lusaka, Zambia ( about 800km) because of my empty pockets and sickness. I had malaria again, but this time was the worst fever I ever had, hallucination drove me crazy when I was inside of my tent in a village on my way to the capital. I started hitchhiking and skating the whole two days from 5 am to 9 pm and finally, I made it to my friend’s house where I’m staying at the moment.
No one can believe that I’m more than happy and feel alive when I’m on a kind of these experiences, trying to fix a problem or get rid of it. But the happiest part is when I’m relaxing in someone’s house that I met by chance, taking a hot shower and starting to remember every single day, every experience and every bad/ good moment. This picture resumes all that I’m talking about. This ride took us more than 7 hours, under the hot sun, dusty roads, and potholes… but people there have no choice so they are adapting to the situation, attaching to strings and laughing all the way. They are not thinking about comfortability or something else, the most important thing is to arrive at their destination no matter how or when.
I remember we became a family during this trip and the most important thing is I learned a lot from them such as, There’s no reason to complain, try to adapt to the situation where I am and to what I have & stay positive.