‘It was a very stressful job, I always went back home too tired to do anything else. I then started to get depressed and eventually just decided to quit and I went traveling to Colombia for 9 months, and then later I went down to South America, and then to Japan for 3 months – then here, Malaysia, for 6 months.
‘Its not impossible to travel without a lot of money. When I left for Japan I only had US$200 in my pocket and I just made do with that that, by taking odd jobs here and there. I’ve been to Malaysia twice before, so I knew it’s cheap. I knew I like the food, I knew I like the people so yeah I think that’s it. And with my job I see something new all the time.
‘So what is the biggest thing you have learned so far?’
‘The biggest thing I’ve learned is to feel happy, and my inspiration for traveling was for happiness – it keeps you happy. You don’t need to do whatever society wants you to do to ‘make it big’. You can feel fulfilled doing any thing – that’s what I learned. I am now doing different jobs and doing different things. I thought I was happy doing anything as long as I got the basic necessities to live. A lot of people are pressured from their family to be successful and you might not like that, you might not feel fulfilled doing it so don’t force yourself’.
‘Where are you going next?
‘England.’
‘How long?
‘I don’t know, it might be 2 weeks, or it might be a year, I don’t plan that far ahead”.
*(The photo was taken a while back – as far as we know he has decided to stay in KL after his trip to England!) — with Boris Panov.
Photostory by Mushamir Mustafa
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(This post was first published on June 2nd 2016)
