What makes you not give up on life?

I recently did a RTW trip and I’ll tell ya I met a lot of blue collar folks, from every continent, doing the same. It’s really just a matter of how you organize your life, because I met a lot of _single_ folks of all backgrounds, but I met by comparison only a handful of couples and even fewer parents (but I did meet some, traveling with children who ranged from newborns to teens). Maybe I’d have met more of them in resorts or hotels compared to the hostels I frequented.

Inertia is a bigger killer of “doing whatever you want,” far more than income. It’s much easier to defensively react to life’s attempts to disrupt your short, established journey than to seize the reins and direct them off the beaten path even for a brief detour.