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We are always meant for something better when we travel – How Travel Changed my Life
“All I want is a decent job without having to leave my mom. Like that lady from our town. We take the same jeepney almost every day. She wears a nice simple uniform—neat with that embroidered company logo on the right chest. San Miguel Beer Corporation. I knew little about her. She doesn’t know me.” Those were the words I uttered as a reply to a family friend lawyer when we bumped into each other one hot summer day back in college. His disappointment palpable. “You have a constricted imagination and goal. You have to dream big and see the world,” he told me. That time, his words barely registered…
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How I Squandered My Bali trip (And What You and I Can Learn From This Unpleasant Experience)
I wish I could turn back time to make my Bali trip more exciting. Alas, no! All I can do now is regret my mistake. That fateful trip started at the airport. I got worried that I wouldn’t get to the hotel, as it took me a while to find the car service that was supposed to pick me up. Feeling the panic welling up inside me, and finally accepting the fact that looking for it by myself would only be in vain, I went to the front desk and politely asked a good looking Indonesian airport staff to page my driver. A few minutes later, a petite, tired-looking,…