“Although loneliness has always been a friend of mine, I’m leaving my life in your hands. People say I’m crazy and that I am blind, risking it all in a glance” – Backstreet Boys. Two years ago… Almost exactly two years ago in life I was happy. I had just visited Agra in India and Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: I’ll Visit My 900th City This Week | It’s Nobody’s Dream | Faleminderit |[…]
“As the day was dawning, my plane flew away. With all the things caught in my mind” – Noel Gallagher. 27th August 2007 – 27th August 2017. Don’t Stop Living is officially 10 years old today. Timewise, that’s almost 30% of my life. It’s more than 50% of my adult life. I’ve shared my life Read more about Don’t Stop Living is 10 Years Old Today: My Thoughts On Sharing a Third of My Life With The World[…]
“I know all about you” – Garbage. Today I reflect on something huge, and I know – it is time for change. It feels like I was living my whole life in the public eye. Of course, a blog is global, anyone can view it. This meant that I lost my privacy and my anonymity. Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: A Change In Me – The Private Jonny Blair[…]
“Come on baby ’cause, there’s no name for, give it up and I got what I came for” – Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was a while back that I wrote an article called “The Fear of Settling Down” and I meant it. It’s a good article actually – have a read and that was Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: I’m Staying Put in Gdańsk, Poland[…]
“Illusion never changed into something real” – Natalie Imbruglia. I promised I would write some more about the mental and psychological aspects of my travel lifestyle and I will but just a quick one today on a wet Sunday in Kaliningrad City, typed live from the Kruassan WiFi Cafe in Victory Square. Hour on hour, Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Depression, Disillusion and Distractions[…]
“You do the walk. Yeah, you do the walk of life” – Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits). It’s pretty hard for me to believe that it is now 18 days since I last slept in a hostel dorm room – the Hostel Cycle On. I am no longer a moving, nomadic backpacker. I did a walk, Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Adjusting to Life As A Resident Rather Than A Backpacker[…]
“We may never meet again, so shed your skin and let’s get started” – Split Enz. Whackpacking the world like some kind of lost lunatic (new moniker for himself) brings with it an emotional rollercoaster of friendships and I’ve come to learn – it has its ups and downs. In equal measures. Snakes and ladders. Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: My 24 Hour Friends[…]
“I look to the future, it makes me cry. But it seems too real, to tell you why. Escape from our history. Free from the memory” – Nicky Wire. I didn’t know what to write today so my heart is just pouring out some emotion here while I jot this down, live from the Hostel Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: I Don’t Know Where I’m Going #gawa[…]
“Time’s running out the door you’re running in” – Ian McCullough (1997). “In the blink of a young girl’s eye, glory days.” – Bruce Springsteen. They say time flies and they don’t lie. Whoever “they” happens to be. As I head to Italy and France this week to live out a childhood dream of watching Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Half My Life Ago, This Week[…]
“I want to be the minority” – Green Day. Do you know what I thought about recently when I reflected on my life for the briefest of seconds? The whole “majority is right” brown substance. One thing I have rarely done in life is follow the majority. I’ve always tried to do my own thing and gone Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Challenge the Majority. Majority Doesn’t Mean Right.[…]