Joshua's travel journal: This online journal is meant to further extend the awareness of traveling internationally as a realistic opportunity for anyone and everyone interested in personal growth and enlightenment of the world in its entirety. I will post updates of my experiences while on journeys across various regions around the world. The purpose being to illustrate what is involved in traveling internationally and how realistic it is for any individual to embark on their own global expedition. Thanks for reading and enjoy! What is Traveling/Studying Abroad? To reach out and embrace the world around you, even if you have traveled to every corner of the globe, in a relationship-based setting has astounding affects. To be subjected within a culture while learning about its diversity, traditions and history allows for once incomprehensible ideas to mature into profound understanding. To walk the streets of local heroes relives their astounding existence and allows for perspective into how similar your life is to their own. As if you demasked a super hero to find that they were no more than your peer but with more inspiration and passion. That is what traveling abroad offers any individual; inspiration to achieve greatness beyond personal expectations and the passion to fulfill every aspiration imaginable. Inserting yourself into a detached culture and way of living, alternatively to your own, will facilitate the building of character, fearlessness and power over the mindâs conception of life. As a picture is worth a thousand words, and those words amount to a single experience, you will take with you just as much as you leave. It is not simply taking away from a new way, an alternative standard of living; no, it is about removing oneself from everything known to be life and starting the next chapter in a forever forming story. Traveling abroad is about turning the page to discover so much more.
People in the world have diverse opinions on how to do things, we are all better off listening to this diversity because it can reveal unforeseen value.
I have spent so much of my life judging each and every action, and reaction for that matter, with scrutiny as some form of self-reflection about who I am or what makes me â me and even more so, how good or bad of a person I am, usually under the definitions of sin and righteousness. However, this type of approach left me unaware of a different perspective within each life event and placing definitions and judgements on each incident abandoned their most ordained purpose in my life - even their purpose in otherâs lives which I was incapable of connecting at that time or any time. For the sake of intellectual stimulation, or even revealing an unidentified truth, let us all consider that each of our choices do hold their own significant purpose and that purpose does not necessarily have to be known because what holds the most importance is that we learn and grow from each decision and progress in wisdom and knowledge along this path of life so freely given to each individual. Think of life as a set of decisions and choices that have already been predestined for each of us to make and the one variable in life is our response to every unique event, with respect to developing the mind, body, and spirit through reflection and adaption, and how this shapes overall awareness and enlightenment. As if life is a petri dish and there is one scientist hovering above who controls the conditions and events occurring. As the organisms, we are each meant to learn how to function with one another, and with ourselves, within the environment, while no matter how much each of us tries, there is no changing the environment which this one scientist has complete control over. The scientist knows how we will make decisions yet offers up the opportunity to choose WHY each of us is making them. So rather than judging decisions as right and wrong, good and evil, attempting to view each choice as a learning experience to adopt towards future events can inevitably lead down a path of enlightenment. Enlightenment that alters not the ability to reason but the premise for particular choices being made. Finally, if a person is given the ability to reason yet all choices are predetermined, it would undermine the purpose for even existing and making decisions. Additionally, if enlightenment provided an individual with the awareness of God and that God would offer up complete purification through faith (reasoning), then assessing a choice based on its inherit morality would deprioritize itself in the face of this logic that these events and choices are actually mechanisms for an individual to progress in their enlightenment. Therefore, reprioritizing reactions to our decisions from judging to learning, seems to have invaluable significance which opens up entirely new possibilities for perceiving the past, present and future â developing omniscience in a way; fittingly so, with consideration that humans were indeed created in the image of God.
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