Don’t Be Afraid to Tell People You’re Going Travelling

Or anything else that goes against the ‘norm’

Kate Conradie
Nov 7 · 4 min read
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

At 21 I went travelling instead of furthering my studies. I was terrified to tell my university friends.

So I didn’t.

I knew what they thought of people who went travelling. They thought people who went travelling were lost or unambitious. They…

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Lawyer but would rather be writing and travelling. Fortune favours the brave.

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