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My Travel Story and How I Get Out of my Comfort Zone

TRAVEL - For starters, let me define a comfort zone. A comfort zone is everything you are familiar with. All habits, activities and places that unconsciously provide you with comfort and ease. On the soil of your country, surrounded by your family and your friends, you would rarely imagine yourself elsewhere, in a distant and foreign land.

It was not easy for me to leave behind a warm mother, a friend more than a father, a sister and a brother who will grow up away from my eyes. I missed everything, my choir, my family hikes and my grandmother's delicious tajines, but I managed to do it in the most beautiful way. If I, a 20-year-old girl, knew how to win, it's because you can too. I am confident that neither age nor gender is a limit for a free spirit and adventurer.

Putting your feet outside this area is a delicate but pleasant decision. It is human and understandable to fear the abstract, the failure and the judgments but, believe me, this courageous decision will mark your life forever. This transition allowed me to see a different world. I feel less vulnerable to failure and judgments.

Who would have thought that I would have arrived there one day? I am convinced that there is no better school than life and that there are no more hardships than the ones it makes us suffer every day. I had to endure a few happy times and others less. I received some hard knocks and I often fell down to get up much stronger and smiling.

If there is one thing I will not regret one day, it's nice to have made the trip not a fad but a lifestyle.

In saying this trip, I do not have in mind Rome, the Maldives or Thailand. There are so many places to discover in Morocco and so many activities to do. And then, meditation is, in itself, a spiritual journey.

I am often told: "You had a lot of luck and means to visit all these countries". Still, I do not believe in luck. I only believe in work and motivation. Luck will come to you only if you provoke it yourself.

Regarding the financing of travel, others add: "It is easier to work while studying abroad rather than Morocco." I only partially agree with that. While in Morocco, part-time jobs are scarce, but this is still possible. Many young Moroccans and Moroccans study and work at the same time.

In my opinion, the obstacle is a purely philosophical term and depends only on our own definition of the thing. In my opinion, "you are your biggest limit!"

I have kept two beautiful testimonies for the end. Smail, a 23-year-old Moroccan. Surfer and yoga teacher, traveling around Africa, and Tomas, 32, from Slovakia. Nomad for more than 8 years.

- Smail tells us about his trip around Africa and what he thinks about the comfort zone: "I have been traveling for 6 years to surf around the world, I usually work with my father in a restaurant to a duration of 6 months and I travel the rest of the time.

I visited several destinations but I particularly fell in love with Indonesia. At present, I am traveling around Africa. I decided to travel across my continent and the cradle of humanity. I also take the opportunity to help poor regions by installing filters for clean and safe water.

The most magical thing here is the kindness of people. They never leave their joy and their smile. They celebrate life every day as they should. While going to Liberia, I did not know the risks I was running: Ebola, malaria and other viruses.

One day, and after two weeks of surfing near the jungle, I felt very tired, I could barely walk. The signs were unfortunately those of malaria. I was hospitalized urgently in Accra. I'm better now, I recently got out of the hospital. I take this opportunity to give me back.

As for my trip in itself, I have not really had any sudden transitions since I was 12 years old. At that age, I was already on the road. I have always had a special love for travel and adventure. This helped me a lot in forging my personality but I was lucky not to come across bad people.

Despite what I had to endure during this trip to Africa, I have no regrets and I am sure to never have any. Africa is to take with its galleys and its diseases. His joy and his suffering. All this makes us who we are. It is very important to get out of the bubble and to discover the world. "

- Tomas also shares with us his story with the journey and his exit from his comfort zone: "I come from Slovakia, I am 32 years old and I have been married for almost 5 years, my first adventure as a nomad 12 years ago After school and army, I could hardly find work because I refused to work for the government I'm not the kind of person to be I did not want to be the man with the gun either, so I applied everywhere, to be finally hired in the Czech Republic, not far from home.

I have always had the desire to travel since I was little. When I was six years old, when I was asked what was my craziest dream, I said: go around the world to finally settle in your most beautiful corner.

So Prague was my first destination. And that's where the adventure started and my love for the journey began to grow and evolve.

After a few years in Prague, my French roommate and I decided to come back home. This time, I was quickly hired by a major bank and I quickly became one of the highest paid bankers in the region. I had a very good career in a very short time. In short, my comfort zone was growing. How to drop all this and start from scratch in another far country?

The situation was becoming more and more complex in the country, the monetary system also and above all, my dream of a little boy that I saw leaving. One day, looking at myself in the mirror one morning, I decided to sell everything and leave. Today, and after 8 years of travel, I speak with great joy and pride. I will never have been the same without this lifestyle that makes all my happiness and stability. I met my wife in India. It turned out that we are coming not only from the same country and from the same city, but also from the same neighborhood. She too decided to go on a discovery of the world. We make our life, while waiting for nomadic children too ".

The future is uncertain. I do not know if I will exist tomorrow but I am alive today so I take advantage of it. As I walk away, I am well aware of what I leave behind but I am even more aware of the value of what I miss by locking myself at home.

I propose to go to the discovery of yourself: put yourself to the test! And know that your exit from the comfort zone can really be done while being in Morocco.

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