Running Away

People run away from bad situations all the time, like war and abusive relationships. I have friends and family telling me the same thing! You all seem like such free spirits, while I am a caged bird. Travelling sounds nice and all, but I dont think the nomadic life is for me. Ive been to different parts of the U. I keep sending out resumes because I want to get a job. Last night I applied for a job teaching english for a year in South Korea. Im probably not going to get it, but I dont know what I would do if I did.

The travel bug never really bit me. This really helps me to realise what I should not tell my son. I do know that but I want him to be happy. In his own way. You are living a life people dream of, so yes, I guess you are running away… from monotony. What is wrong with that? I say keep running Matt! So instead, they run down those who do in an attempt to justify their inability to take a step into the unknown. I find your blog, your tone and general attitude to life — both refreshing and inspiring.

I drop by here occasionally to re-afirm that there are people out there living their dream, and to top it all off — we share the same first name. Alright, not exactly an uncommon one, but still…. I do intend to do what you do one day. We might have agreed with the naysayers though not so judgmental ten years ago, and it took a long look at things before we got the guts to take off. It was the best thing we ever did!

I went home after 1 year with the best intentions, I immediately felt like before I left 1 year before. So I decided to leave for good, I never went back. After over 8 years tho, is not like im escaping from that place anymore!! I was in Europe for 4 years and I have now been living in South America for 4 years, learned a million of things, been poor, been rich, been happy, been sad… but most of all…i have been living and I am super satisfied with my life!

I am very content! So, why cant an escape be just the beginning of things? Just the primordial cause that evolved into the discovery of something more important? One more thing, why does it seem like there are more male nomads than female. Great piece of writing about travel and living outside the norm. My wife and I do our best as teachers. We feel we can make a real difference in the world.

Also, we get more time off for travel or family in the summer. I feel like it is the in between life we are searching for. Summers to travel with the kids and expose them to the real world and not just the Americanized propagandized version we see and hear from American media. You do not have to graduate high school, go to college, get a job, buy a car, get married, buy a house, have kids, work until you retire, and then die old having worked your whole life away in this materialistic, capitalistic driven society we grow up in in the United States.

Hey Matt, I really dig this post. When I first took off at 16 and traveled around Europe and the Middle East, I have to admit, I actually was running away from something. I hoped that I would find happiness. I fostered these hopes with each new country I entered. However, I quickly realized that happiness can only be found within ones self.

Now when I travel, I am not running away from home but rather like you, I am running towards life. Safe Travels, Best, Leif. I agree with you, I just wish I would quit being so scared and just leave. I have listened to the media about how scary the world is and how hard it is financially.

I need to do what your doing. I need to figure out some way to bring in revenue. If anyone has any ideas let me know. It bothers me that everyone sees travel as an interlude — after which you must return to everyday life. I have always relished the idea of living life to the fullest, without any trace of monotony. I really loved this article, and I think everyone should give travel a chance. I love travelling, meeting all kinds of people, cultures, seeing beautiful sights and interesting places. I always thought I wanted to immigrate abroad but after a few months away I miss my friends and family and want to come home.

I am eternally thankful for this post. I am an intelligent, artistic mostly sane college grad with an undying hunger to explore and do what I want for me and my life, not some angsty 15 year old mad at mommy and daddy for not letting me stay out pass curfew. So I find my self staring at square one with no real travel plans, no travel partner other then my dog and less money then I woulda had if I left 3 weeks ago as planned. So I guess my question is what next? The fear of the unknown and consequences of upsetting a tightly woven, stubborn family seem insurmountable, however.

Thank you for your article, Matt!! By far, this is the best post on dealing with the people I leave behind. Thanks for such an awesome blog! I went to Italy for 6 months to study abroad and just came back 2 months ago. But you, and others like you, give me so much hope and courage. Thank you for reviving my dream, and I hope someday soon after college , I will be able to do all the things I want, and go all the places I want. Do you think you might want to stop and settle down one day? Are you scared of when that might happen?

This blog is truly inspirational. Yes, you are right. You travel towards life, not away from it. You explained it so nicely. By sheer internet happenstance I found this old blog of yours. The world is too dependent upon the little worlds we construct around ourselves, never venturing outside because they are comfortable little worlds and the great big one has a tendency to be nasty. The news never really captures the different kinds of goodness and wonder growing wherever it can. This article inspired me a little — or perhaps set a attune to the kind of wonder I had been ignoring — to see a little more of what goes on in the mindsets of other cultures so very different from my own.

People like you are the only ones moving at all. You inspire me man.. Matt, I just came across your blog. Think I heard about you from Thrilling Heroic couple weeks ago. If I want to come back, I can whenever I want…. Everybody wins and I get to do what I love. What could be better. Anyone can do this, that wants to. If you truly have the desire you can figure out a way….

Running away… this term seems to signify cowardice or fleeing danger. You run away from a mad elephant or a god damned tsunami. Running away from 60 hours a week in the office? Something else is up! Cowardice has nothing to do with extended travel. Hell, it takes a balls to constantly sell everything you have and move to an unknown place with no plan of return.

Just tell people your running! I am in Africa trying to do some development work and know exactly what you are saying! I am running away. Wow, I loved reading this, thanks! I am a fellow nomad. I have been presented with the same question of running away and when I explain that I am running to…that I want to see everything I can, I rarely find those on the same page. I love these explorations! Rock on…so glad to see so many fellow explorers. I love this article. I plan to start my new nomad life tomorrow. I have a travel schedule planned out but have not told my family or friends yet.

I want an adventurous life, not a boring desk job life. I have this drive in my heart that makes me yearn for mountains, deserts, new oceans, forests and all new cultures that are at present unknown to me. I plan on writing a novel about my travels around the world and starting a life I can look on in wonder and awe.

A nicely put blog, great read! Your methodology seems week to me. The whole white picket fence, 2. You may not think you are running but you are — from yourself. The best is if you can enjoy a great career or start-up and take 2 months off a year. Very inspirational and true words Matt. I like it that you dont mince your words,you say it as it is, and how you feel. Here is an interesting and true story. When I was eighteen, my friend and I decided to travel to france. I had a car and was to drive. We saved and planned and as time drew closer I became more excited. Then my friend became strangely quite on the matter.

She chose the puppy!! Needless to say I was confused and disappointed. I never lost the urge to travel and a few years later announced to my family that I was going in a few days time. People were shocked and worried. Is it because it challenges their own boundaries? I have enjoyed reading your blog for quite a few months now. It seemed that I needed to be away to find my place in myself and I found it. This year, I took my two children to London, Paris and Rome in the hopes to open their eyes to something more. Continue having the time of your life in your travels….

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There is no guarantee that traveling the world, marrying your high school sweetheart or being rich will make you happy. The joy is in the pursuit, the process, the removal of regret and the hope that the outcome will lead to joy. I love it when people think outside the norm, or maybe I mean I love the people that have found their own brain! But when I find blogs like yours, and I meet those rare indviduals who choose to live their life their way, I feel so inspired again.

This definitely appears to be a topic that generates different views and discussion which reflects the thought provoking nature of this post. I believe the purpose of life is to attain happiness. Life is also about choices. If one achieves happiness with a nomadic lifestyle then a good choice was made. Maybe some people will choose that lifestyle and go down that road and not be happy.

Maybe there is some element of that as well. He thought I was mad when I suggested that we let the house and go travelling around the world…. Husband still has some work ethic Calvinistic pangs occasionally, but when I point out the alternative; being employed by box-ticking mindless bureaucrats, staring at a wall, to service a mortgage? And would we even get jobs now? I plan to carry on until they carry me off. I personally enjoy renting vacation homes through sites like HereStay. Though, I suppose we cannot stereotype all travelers as either living or escaping.

I also believe you can do both simultaneously. There is always the possibility that someone travels to escape from their problems, such as running away from debt or relationship problems. I know because I have met some on my journeys.

What are you running from?

That gets me plenty of unwanted advice and derision, esp from people who claim to love me most! I notice my fellow Americans have big brains in their big heads, yet have the smallest minds. They believe their religion is the right one. Their habits are the normal ones. But people pass on their numbskull ideas to offspring, unfortunately. I was directed to this website by my fiance who just informed me that he wants to drop everything and travel for at least a year.

We are supposed to get married in four months and he just dropped this bomb on me. I really see what you are saying, and I do see the allure of the lifestyle. How could I possibly feed myself if I were to lead a nomadic lifestyle? And most importantly, how do I get past the fact that it really does feel like he is running away from me? He informed me he is going with or without me. Can you defend his sudden urge to become a nomad at this time, or do you think that he is running away from me?

Great post and great writing! I ran away 17 months ago. I always admitted that I was running away. I never denied myself that. If running away is what it is, then I am a better person for doing it. I embrace it and will beg, borrow and deal to continue. I personally think God created us because before us there was nobody to appreciate what he made. We were put here to see it all! In my opinion is running free, a person should do what his heart desires, not running away would be a betrayal to your own self. Ever since I finished high school I have been working on and off random jobs and have already switched college programs 2 times Computer is now 3rd due to the total lack of interest and was only doing it in the first place because every one I know is sort of doing their own thing with work and university.

As soon as I ran across your blog while looking up backpacking, I was completely glued to it and was amazed at how a lot of people can get up the courage to leave everything they know and just with their trusty backpack set forth and explore the world. I might not be the smartest or the bravest guy out there but hell I know that I can do this going backpacking for a really loong time and not regret this decision, because I know this is what I really wanted to do for awhile now but I have just been denying it. Anyway thanks for sharing a lot of information about backpacking and everything in between that we need to know.

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I might leave in a few months once I finish planning everything. I was a grown-up for a long time, but I was never much good at it. The only job I ever liked was done away with; wife died; cats died; sold my house into an insanely overpriced market and became someone I read about in a book. Or maybe saw in a movie. Works for me, though I would hesitate to recommend it to anyone else.

People say this to me all the time and I am glad you wrote about it! Especially when I went to live in Argentina for 3 months. What I found, though, that I was the conservative one, with many people staying 6 months to becoming expats! Now, I am finding out how I can travel for longer this next time. I have learned so much about myself and the world on all of my adventures.

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I say, the people saying we are running away are just jealous and do not have the guts that we do to walk towards the unexpected! I just found this blog today and definitely will be following it! Thanks and happy adventures! Very inspirational, and I agree that fear holds us back from doing so much. I have been planning my 3-month trip for months now and to be honest I have had some worries. This article really gave me a boost, thanks and wish me luck. When I was 26 about 5 years ago I bought a sailboat.

My brother, living the life of convention happy and successful as a doctor; to each their own reacted to my purchase with the following: I bought my sailboat from a widow. He was dead by September. I left Canada the following year, and am still in the tropics with my sailboat, loving life. Not rich or working towards a stable career or retirement fund, but loving life. My wife and I have recently decided that we are going to pull the plug on our quiet domestic life and indulge our love of travel full time. Whenever we mention our plans we get an eyeroll or two from someone in the crowd.

Those are some powerful words but you know what? It seems to me like the full-time traveler the form that lives life on the road is a very…VERY small portion of todays society. Thanks for the inspiring words. I always get asked when are you going to settle down? Marriage is just the keystone to economics. Great Movie by the way. Bring it down to a very low level i know.

Being marred stay in the country and having babies does grow the local economy. So this has been the life that has had glamorization for a very long time. A friend just emailed me this piece. Though, that said, I like to think of travel as just running. Running for the sake of running and for no other reason than running makes you feel good. I totally identify with this! I spent 3 years in Cairo for college and a summer in Jerusalem during grad school Manhattan.

When I first wanted to move overseas, my parents asked me if I was running away from something. I told them yes, and then I went and found myself! Maybe I am running a way. In my opinion, at least. When I was 22 I quit my engineering job already after 6 months to do what I had dreamt of: After a few weeks I got hooked to the nomad life of wandering and experiencing new events and people every day.

However, things changed after an encounter in Indonesia. Resting along a road in West Timor, I met a young guy who impressed me by his cleverness. He had tought himself english, math and physics by means of textbooks only. He would never be able to realize his aspirations. This struck me very heavily and it meant a turning point for me: I have now been working as an engineer for more than 10 years.

I have never felt the urge again to go travelling for many months, even though that single year was one of the greatest years of my life. What brings happiness for me is family, friends I can rely on and doing a job in which I feel I contribute something to society. Heck yeah, normal life is worthy of running from.

Think of other mentor figures. Maybe it's a teacher; maybe it's a friend of your mother's. Many of us have mentors who look after us. They want to see us succeed and be safe. Your decision will undoubtedly have an effect on them. Understand that in many cases, running away from home is illegal. Although most states won't punish minors someone under the age of 18 for running away from home, several states consider it illegal.

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Tell a teacher or other trusted adult or call the police. Make sure you have a place to stay for a night or two before you do this, so you don't have to go anywhere weird. You may worry that foster care will be worse than being with your parents, even if they hurt you, but it is better to risk it.

You may even be able to stay with another family member or friend if you work this out in advance. Even if you do run away in a state that doesn't have laws against it, you could still find yourself in court. Still, minors who are in the CHINS process may face fines, suspended privileges, and mandatory drug screenings. Talk to someone about your plans to run away. Address the motivation for wanting to run away, if possible.

There are many reasons why a child would want to run away. Addressing the reason why could help you solve the problem before it gets so bad that you feel forced to run away. Here are some statistics: Is there another adult who might give you advice about how to work the problem out with your parents? If not, consider calling Child Protective Services. If your parents ask you to leave or tell you they don't care about you leaving, call or visit Child Protective Services.

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It's not betraying your parents to want to find someone who cares about you. If you are the victim of physical or sexual abuse, find an adult who you can confide in it may be your parents, it may not be and visit the police to file a report. Write a list of all the pros and cons of running away. Often, putting your thoughts down on paper has a soothing effect, making things more clear in the process. Here are some possible pros and cons of running away. Opportunities to travel, see new places, and meet new people. Increased freedom and the possibility of maturity and personal growth, no matter how hard it gets.

Development of self-reliance, a sense of being able to do things by, and entirely for, yourself. Increased likelihood of spending nights outdoors, on the streets, under bridges or overhangs, or even on top of roofs. Increased likelihood of violence, drugs, disease, and prostitution on the streets. Feeling like you have no one to talk to, like no one cares, or like the things you do don't make a difference.

Give your emotions one week to cool off before making any big decisions. Often, we let our emotions make decisions for us when we think we're being rational. This can be a good thing, but sometimes it's bad, because we trick ourselves into thinking that we're being rational.

To let your emotions cool off and really give yourself time to think about your possible life-changing decision, wait a week before doing anything. Reach out to people you can trust and perhaps talk it over with them. After a week, your rational brain will probably have had time to make a decision. This is different for each case, and so you should weigh the consequences for running away if your parents were to find you. Some parents get mad at you, instead of trying to help you. Think of what you will do if any part of your plan goes wrong, and make up excuses for everything.

Here are some things that you always need to consider: What will you do if you get sick? What will you do if you are caught? What will you eat? How will you maintain good hygiene? How will you stay off the streets and out of harm's way? Try to find a safe place to stay with someone you can trust. If you have someone who's helping you run away and can stay with them at least for a little while, you're pretty much set. However, if that's not a possibility, where will you take shelter? Pack up a bag with some essentials. Travel light; bring only the bare essentials.

Now is not the time to set a record for pounds carried. Bring food, money, extra changes of clothing, a jacket or coat in case it gets cold, clothes with pockets, a toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, and anything else you will need. If you don't want to be recognized, take with you only the clothes you wear least often. Some other things that might be useful in your quest: Try to bring some of your allowance but don't take enough to get you noticed. If you plan to steal the money, find a place where you can get it fast without being spotted by your parents.

If you have a credit card, definitely take that, as it's much harder to steal and use, and you can cancel it at any time. Be prepared for your parents to possibly cancel it, however, when they find out that you've run away. Don't use it as your only source of money. The bank can track down your card, and see what stores and shops to which you've been. Also the same with cell phones; they can track your location. You need to be aware of these things and use them wisely.

Wait until you have the right opportunity to make a run for it. Make sure you have plenty of time to get away before anyone notices you're gone. Try making your move as soon as you get to school in the morning, or as soon as everyone in your home leaves and you know they won't be coming back for a long time. When you do book it, make it snappy. The last thing you want is for anyone in the neighborhood to notice you leaving. Find a method of transportation. You will likely want to have a quick and easy way of getting around.

Make up a story. You'll have to accept that at some point, someone is going to want to know where you came from, or what you are doing. You're probably going to need to do some thinking about this. Think of something reasonable and realistic, but don't say you ran away. You'll want to remember it everywhere you go because word gets out quite fast in this world about anything, so you should probably keep your story the same all throughout your life as a runaway, just to avoid arousing suspicion.

Avoid inconsistencies by thinking out the details ahead of time. If you are really serious about running away permanently, change your name. Have fun with it, but don't choose anything too wacky. But think about it, something common would probably be best because it'll be harder to remember, and your main aim is not to become too well-known.

Live near large grocery stores or candy stores. These places will usually have food samples open to the public which you can snack on, though make sure you take a cart with you and try to look like you have a purpose; don't hang around. Also, you can use the public bathrooms to wash yourself and do your business. It's not glamorous, but you can always go dumpster-diving at the back of large grocery stores. You'll be seriously surprised about what people throw away. The more you dumpster-dive, the more your system will get used to food that's past its prime.

In the beginning, it might be quite uncomfortable, but it should get better. Find shelter if you haven't. If you don't have a place to stay, you'll have to find shelter elsewhere. If these don't work out, try looking for the nearest homeless shelter, and check their availability. If you just need a place to stay in order to pass the time, public libraries, churches, college buildings, airports, and train stations are all possible options.

These places are safe, while generally having enough people about to make it easy for you to go unnoticed. In the winter months, you may want to try to find a building with an elevator if you are in a downtown area. Try climbing the stairs next to an elevator shaft all the way to the top. You may find a room that is nice and warm, that not too many people go into. Stay away from the woods or the desert. These places are generally very rural, and make it easier for other people to victimize you.

As romantic as it may seem, it's really hard to make a living off of the land nowadays, especially if you know nothing about plant and animal species. Try to find places with other people around; they're usually safer. You'll probably begin to need money at some point, so learn how to panhandle. Panhandling is asking other people for money.

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