It's not because things are difficult that we don't dare to do them, it's because we don't dare to do them that they become difficult. (Seneca)

After 10 years in the same work place, I have decided to leave, not just to leave my job, but to really leave.

Do you know when we say

"Do I quit everything and go away?"

So, this is the perfect sentence to start my story!

I thought about it so often, but what always held me back was the house I bought four years ago. A 30-year mortage is quite the commitment. How are you going to pay the rent in another city plus the mortgage payment for your house? And then there are the taxes, there's the local property tax, and blablablah, in the end we are always talking about money. And then there's the Unknown of leaving a job you don't enjoy, but with a permanent contract, to go look for work who knows where, to do who knows what, for who knows what kind of remuneration (money again).

Leaving behind the security that depresses you, in search of a happiness that will not give you security.

I have chosen to take this risk.

I should certainly have done it earlier, but, after all, I am only thirty years old (in a month and a half, it will be thirty-one, but I will keep saying thirty); I still have time to discover what I want and to do it. I should have listened to my inner nomad a few years ago, when I heard it inside of me, but I pretended not to hear it.

When I went to school, I remember that I wrote in the diary of my classmates part of a song by Tiromancino, "La Descrizione Di Un Attimo" (The description of a moment).

"They have told me about your travels

they have told me that you are sick

that you have gone crazy

but i know that you are normal

you ask me to leave now

because numbers and the future

don't get you worried".

Today I think that, actually, I always found out what I wanted to do. Travel.

And why not do it now?

Let's do it !

Passport and go.

I have applied for a visa for New Zealand and Australia, and as soon as they give it to me, I say goodbye to everyone at work, I rent out my house, I get on a plane and I'll see you in two years.

This blog will accompany me on my journey, it does not have to be interesting, does not claim to have a million visits a day, but it will be useful for someone maybe. I would be happy to know if, reading, someone else found the strength to break the chains, open the cage's door and go towards new worlds, towards a new life, that maybe on return will be like the old one, but after this experience we will be changed, this is certain.