Introduction 

If it’s not happening to you, we called it “stories”.

If those things are happening to you, we called it “life events”.

Most of the time in life, it’s always easier to give advice to someone instead of struggling the whole day for nothing, but what if these life events are happening to you?

You become frustrated, anxious, paranoid and sad, you can’t pull yourself up like once you’ve told others to be positive.

In this very moment, you can’t even listen a word from what others said.

You are drowned in the deepwater, not even lifeguard can save you but only you can decide if you want to be saved.

Your inner potential energy shows only when you are trapped in the most difficult and dangerous situations – it can be any kinds.

Your words say one thing, on the other hand, your actions go completely the opposite way.

Only when your heart truly 100% opens up to any advices, then you will write this “life events” in one of your chapter.

No one ever can force oneself tofollow others path, only if you wanted to.

“You are not following anyone inyour life, not even your Guru, but we can walk together hand in hand to overcome difficulties” – Anand Krishna

It’s absolutely alright to not follow the path of anyone else, even your parents.

Human are complicated, and we areall individuals in different forms.

By making mistakes, taking thewrong path or meeting someone who toxic your life, those are all life lessons that you need to overcome along your own path.

“Life is a journey from B to D, from birth to death, but don’t forget there’s a C in between, and it’s choice. If you feel hurt, sad or angry, it’s your choice.”

Destiny might have planned or setfrom the beginning, but it will give you always a choice to decide with path you choose.

I wake up sad this morning, I feel hurt because someone left me, I am sad for losing someone important in my life etc..

Those are certain forms that youkeep telling yourself, stopping yourself from happiness.

No life is perfect, and every creature in life has “expire date”.

People comes and goes, it’s the routine in life, nothing can be eternal.

It’s all up to you, how you are going to plan and live your life to the fullest.

Man dies eventually, just likeany other creatures in the universe, I am not being negative, but we need to somehow accept and face this truth.

If you think that going for travelling is the break or the way of recharging positive energy in your life,
I have to tell you, it’s not true.

I felt the same back in 2016, I am just tired of the daily routine and I want to experience the world out there to recharge a little bit.

And this mind-set became a pattern, and it has followed me for 6 years.

I kept going on a journey, somehow,I am addicted.

“I love travelling solo, to enjoy the total freedom and meet interesting souls along the way”. That’s what I kept telling myself and others.

“Do you really think like that? Really?” – My inner voice even has doubts.

Freedom, it’s a word with deep meaning. What is freedom actually?

It’s not only that when you started your trip, leaving your daily routine or being completely spontaneous, that’s not enough to called it “freedom”.

You can be free even when you are not travelling, simply just sitting on your sofa or just lying down on your bed.

Freedom it’s a just a form, and we often make it too complicated.

Location, the state of mind andsurrounding doesn’t matter – what happened in the past exactly make who you are today.

“At least what happened withinyou must be determined by you, what happens around you it will never be 100% determined by you. If the whole world happens the way you want then where do I
go?” – Sadhguru.

Human might born self-centered, there’s nothing wrong with it.

When you continue your journey, there is this certain moment arrives, and you suddenly realized the world is more than “just what you think, but as well as the opinion from other people”.

Same as self-love, without loving yourself first how possible for you to love the whole world and how possible to expect someone to love you?

Life is not always fair in a way, but it actually depends on how you look into it.

By giving and not expect any return, this love comes from your parents.

Sooner or later, you will have your own family and children, and that’s the moment you realized self-love is never enough.

Before then, it’s very hard to understand this point, again, if it’s not happening to you, you wouldn’t
understand or you wouldn’t feel the same. Until you did.

When you think of freedom, what comes first?

I believe the first word came into your mind are all depends on your life status.

When you were a kid, freedom for you might be able to play toys for hours; when you were a teenager, freedom for you might be able to hang out with friends from school; when you were at your 20s, freedom for you might be able to make your own decisions like which university you are going or who you want to date without having the permission from your parents; when you were at the university, freedom for you might be able to choose the ideal major or future jobs; And when you were close to the age of 30, freedom for you might be able to say “yes” to start your own family
that you choose..

Does it sound like familiar to you?

You might be going through the same or slightly different, but the meaning is this: “whatever that happens, it happens at the right time and for a good reason.”

At the beginning is very difficult to understand, “What if” is a very dangerous question, short but
powerful.

When that happens, you started questioning yourself or the choice you’ve made.

Take a few steps back, you’vecame all these way till today, isn’t it worthy to give up everything you built back then just because one tiny-doubts that just came across your mind maybe only for a few seconds?

Is it easier to move forward orto go backwards?

Drop those thoughts of questioning and doubting, if you look up and you will actually find the answer – moving ahead among of “impossibilities”.

I am writing this book at my late 20s, a good way to say “hello” to my upcoming 30s.

Life is built by different chapters, I am glad to meet these amazingpeople along my journey before 30s, special thanks to:

Darren, David, Maya, Nicolas, Tang, Myrte, Lana city park mates,Sergi, Nicole, Vivian, Ray, Lauren, Mehdi, Paul, Sam, Max, Samantha, Michael,
Hans, Federico, Luigi, Marco, Jacopo, Putu, Dan, Erika, Martha, Thales, Habibi,
Rosa, Miguel, CJ, Andrea, Melanie, Anna, Laura, Chris, Mircea, Fem, Vishal,
Raji, Graziela, Manouk, Derek, Jana, Ola, Issac, Anish, Paljor, David, Melina,
Prrahjot, Vishnu, Ankit, Banti, Jonghwa, Antonia, Hisham, Sarah, Manuela,
Dmitry, Sian, Mia, Amanda, Sara, Ale, Yayo, Maddy, Edu, Chad, Max, Nicholas,
Stephanie, Alice, Thaomi, Mario, Yohann, Anuj, Nathan, Lucia and all my Vipassana mates..

Every one of you I met along this journey, they are my teachers, we are so different but in the same time, we have so much in common. We came from different countries, different cultural, the most important is we have different perspective towards life. Imagine if all of us in this planet are all the same, it will be very boring, like watching yourself in the mirror, and we definitely don’t want that. Perfection doesn’t exist, you are good at one thing, and the others are good at other things, we learn from each other. To truly embrace life to the fullest is to accept the fact that you are not perfect, no one is, we are equal. So stop complaining life isn’t fair, if you change a bit your perspective towards life, you will find life is beautiful as it is.

Anxiety, depression, sadness,frustration and anger is a form to make your life complete, the beauty of living is to have ups and downs in life so then you appreciate more after certain chaotic moments.