I have good work. I am making an impact. I feel grateful to have good relationships and good opportunities. I am regularly challenged and regularly experience professional, personal, spiritual, and emotional growth.
I am committed to my work. I am committed to the projects, individuals, and teams with whom I partner and strategize and collaborate.
I feel valued, heard, welcomed, appreciated by many people for many reasons.
In sum, there are a lot of compelling, meaningful elements of my life. And I have little to complain about.
And, how cool would it be to just travel the world for a year with little or no responsibilities?
Experience different peoples and cultures and music and food and events and the vast dynamism of the human condition? Here's where I'd go, a month each place:
1. Havana, Cuba
2. Mexico City, Mexico
3. Medellin, Columbia
4. Montevideo, Uruguay
5. Budapest, Hungary
6. Beirut, Lebanon
7. Tangier, Morocco
8. Timbuktu, Mali
9. Accra, Ghana
10. Colombo, Sri Lanka
11. Tashkent, Uzbekistan
12. Lhasa, Tibet
I know it's not that safe to travel. And this reeks of privilege. And I can't afford it. And the kids are in school. And many other logistics.
But it's something I've been thinking about, and thought I'd share.
Maybe others are feeling the same? Where would you go?