Both and Neither
A few years ago, I was wandering through Tasmania using my thumb as a bus ticket. Some days were incredible; meeting wild haired strangers, going on insane adventures and living in the way that motivational speakers tell you to dream. Many of those stories found their way into my book Never Homeless ; all night jam sessions with instant friends, wilderness explorations full of joy and sleeping under the stars on the white sandy beaches. But in between those postcard moments were just as many days when nothing exciting happened and I questioned my life choices constantly. Days when I was so exhausted that I lay in my tent and stared at the ceiling. Days when I sat alone for hours and waited impatiently for more amazing stuff to fall out of the sky so that I might find distraction from inner demons. Days when I was fired up and ready to go and then all I encountered was the doldrums of a normal life. On those days, my confidence waned and my viewpoints soured. Sometime in this Tasman