I love solo travel, but the first day is always hard. However, today I had some small wins!
As the title says, I love solo travel. I deeply enjoy having the freedom to just go wherever I want, whenever I want and to be as sociable as I feel comfortable being. And I also really love meeting new people. However, I am an introvert with mild social anxiety and bouts of depression and I must say the first day in any new country really gets to me.
I arrived this morning in the first country of my solo trip to South America and, as much as I had a pretty great experience since the locals have been nothing but friendly and I have managed to get around just fine with my Spanish, I feel pretty awful. Let it be the jet lag, or the fact that I am PMSing hard, but I can't help but wonder why on earth I decided to go travel again. I feel so incapable of making friends, I keep tellkng myself what an anti social person I am and how I am not likable. It always somehow gives me terrible anxiety to go into a new hostel, where most people already know each other, and try to get to know them.
Today, however, I decided to write down some small wins I had over the course of the day, to prove myself that nothing is really going as bad as my mind makes it out to be. Here are a few:
- had a nice talk with cab driver (in Spanish!!)
- managed to solve a small problem (again in Spanish!)
- went to the common area, instead of somewhere where I could just be alone and hide
- met a fellow traveler in the common area and stroke up an hour-long conversation
- decided to stay in to soothe my jet lag tonight, rather than accepting any invite to go out just for the sake of being sociable
Submitted January 28, 2019 at 11:40PM by pepinomelon http://bit.ly/2UrV0oD
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