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I need you to write some articles. today, my apartment lease expired, I shipped a few boxes to my mom’s house, packed a suitcase to (hopefully) last me a few months, and took off across the Atlantic. I hadless than $1,000 in my bank [login to view URL] first stop was Paris, where, still reelingfrom breaking up with my girlfriend, sellingall of my possessions, and maintaining an online business that was hardly making any money, I proceeded to sulk and gripe my way through the streets ofLa Ville-Lumiéretotally not appreciating what was around [login to view URL], things got better though. And I moved on. Both from Paris and my own personal pity parade. I moved on to Belgium, then Holland, then Germany, thenPrague. I moved back home again only to move on to South America a few months later. Then Southeast Asia after that, then Australia, then Central America, then Eastern Europe, and then South America [login to view URL] the span of five years, I moved on to 55 separate countries, dozens of new friendships, hundreds of fascinating people and experiences, and even picked upa couple languagesalong the [login to view URL]’t worry, I’m not going to get all misty-eyed and tell you how I discovered my truecalling or how happy starving children in Africa really are if you could have justseenthem playingwith trash and shitting in buckets — they were soooooooohappy. I’m not going to get up my own ass with false self-importance. And I’m certainly notgoing to claim I “found myself” or something.No. Traveling the world, like any life path you choose, has its ups and downs, itshighs and lows, its pros and [login to view URL] I will say: picking up and leaving my life behind in 2009 and spending the past five yearsvagabonding about the planetwas both one of the most challenging and rewarding decisions I’ve ever made. And I wouldn’t take it [login to view URL] you do learn a lot. About people, about the world, about life. You just don’t always learn what you expect to learn. Sometimes the lessons come at unwantedtimes and give you unwanted truths. Sometimes you learn things you can’t unlearn and see things you can’t [login to view URL] regardless, you grow. Here are some of the lessons that I’ve learned and some of the ways I have grown.