What is the point of the nomad life?
So here is an extract from an email that I wrote to Jen ealier today:
"I've been thinking daily in the back of my mind what I want to do next year... ...But I think the bottom line comes down to this. The nomad/AIESEC lifestyle, and changing location and job every year or so, is an excellent way to gather new skills and experiences, know new places, and have your ideas, world-view and thinking shaped. But it is only a means to an end. There comes a point during your wanderings where you figure out something that you actually want to DO, or something you want to create/impact/change, for the next few years anyway. The nomad lifestyle helps you figure this out. But when you come to that point, it is no longer good enough to go off for a new experience / job / country just for the sake of getting a new experience. Instead you need to set about doing / creating / changing / impacting the thing that you want. And I have a pretty strong feeling that I will be at that stage by the end of this year. Not sure exactly what it will be, but I'm 80% sure it will be in Australia..."
What do other people think about this? Is being a nomad simply a means to an end (of being a change agent), or is the nomad lifestyle an adequate end in itself? Thoughts?
"I've been thinking daily in the back of my mind what I want to do next year... ...But I think the bottom line comes down to this. The nomad/AIESEC lifestyle, and changing location and job every year or so, is an excellent way to gather new skills and experiences, know new places, and have your ideas, world-view and thinking shaped. But it is only a means to an end. There comes a point during your wanderings where you figure out something that you actually want to DO, or something you want to create/impact/change, for the next few years anyway. The nomad lifestyle helps you figure this out. But when you come to that point, it is no longer good enough to go off for a new experience / job / country just for the sake of getting a new experience. Instead you need to set about doing / creating / changing / impacting the thing that you want. And I have a pretty strong feeling that I will be at that stage by the end of this year. Not sure exactly what it will be, but I'm 80% sure it will be in Australia..."
What do other people think about this? Is being a nomad simply a means to an end (of being a change agent), or is the nomad lifestyle an adequate end in itself? Thoughts?
4 Comments:
for me, nomad lifestyle means always staking new territory, whether it is physical or ideas or concept;
nomad = never get stuck/stale/static;
Wondering if "settle down" ("get stuck" in some people's opinion maybe) would not be equaled to "no mad".
Staking new territories is cool. But by doing so, what and whom we are exactly changing then?
once a nomad finds a place that supplies his food indefinitely.. he sets up camp
and then a nomad ends his wandering days... until the food runs out
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