Life is a journey…take the steps with me.
How the travelling started?  It makes a lot of sense when you are held in a quarter life crisis (QLC).  This a term coined from midlife crisis, for life period of 21 to 29 years of age.  I perfectly fit this category.  Like anyone after puberty or a college degree, it is meant to ask “What will I do now?”
I am a college degree holder in an esteemed university in the Philippines.  At 19, I finished the course with non-flying grades.  I was just an average student but I would like to boast that my IQ level is above average according to WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Third Edition.)  Extra-curricular wise, I was cross training in different sports starting from arnis (local martial arts), to athletics (running division), to volleyball and to touch football.  I joined the University league and Nationals for Taekwondo.  Yes, I concur that I have ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder).
Also, at 19 years of age I started to be independent.  This meant not having to ask dough from my folks.    So I worked for money since I don’t belong to royalty.  This age maybe late for other cultures but Filipino culture tend to have their kids until they are married.  Sometimes, it could be forever.  I started as a freelance model.  I joined mostly events like bar tours, car shows, conventions, concerts, commercials, ads etc.  I sharpened up and started hosting for events.  I got in several local TV shows somehow.  I also worked in a corporate setting as a spokesperson then landed some projects for organizing events and media relations.  The world of marketing and advertising fascinated me.
At 24, I journeyed into food business and took up a master’s degree.  The business was not giving enough for schooling so I have to go back to modeling.  My sleeping and waking hours were just not enough with the business, the course and modeling.  I was devastated, undernourished resulting to my melancholy.
I decided this is not my journey.  I was spreading myself too thin.  I need a break, I need to soul search.  I finished my course until the 3rd term.  Blessing in disguise, my usual event gave me the pink slip. My business was not in great shape and I had my mom take over.  This gave me time to think…
The country I am in, Philippines, is a typical third world country where the rich are tremendously affluent and the poor are beyond compare.  With 7, 107 islands, it is a gifted soil.  There is so much wondrous nature explored and unexplored, indeed, gifted.  The people have warm smiles and endured many struggles and famine (from nature and government).

Yet, I choose to leave the country I love and hate for many reasons…