The ‘f**k it’ approach & how I got to Mexico

For years I had dreamt of backpacking through South America and set myself some ‘must do’ locations to visit by the time I was 25. For me, the time pressure gave me motivation to stop coming up with excuses on why not to just up sticks and go. After all, most of us know how easy it is to get stuck in a comfortable lifestyle with a career/partner/saving or education. So when I was 22, I started to write my my dreams on to paper in form a brief itinerary. I wanted to visualise it, to understand what I needed in the bank to make it all happen.

I have this (really annoying) trait where I start to plan something and get over excited and keep adding new ideas. I thought, while I’m so close to Central America I may as well incorporate that and so I started planning further and further up and until last minute, I was certain my trip would start from Guatemala… Mexico just happened.

Shit kinda had started to hit the fan in my personal life in March 2019 and if anything, it gave me more of a ‘fuck it’ approach that I needed. I had a really good, stable job but with 7 weeks notice, I quit and booked my flights. It was actually going to happen and I was so excited!

I now live by this because it works for me. When somethings bothering me, if I can’t do anything to change it then fuck it, I have to get on with it.

Here is an example of me getting over excited again, I actually sat down to start writing a blog post on solo travel through Mexico but here’s some added context that nobody asked for🥰