One of my personal goals in life is to travel the world. I want to get to know people and their culture, much more to study them. Besides, like what I always tell myself, "The world is too big to ignore." I used to think that one good way to travel the world is to be an interpreter of languages. That was one of the reasons why I took Linguistics for my masters, aside from the thought of creating literacy materials for Filipino indigenous people, me, being an advocate of learning. Another way, din pala to start traveling the world is to do missionary works, like the chosen vocation of Kuya Bernie. I envy him. At his young age, he was able to travel to Thailand, Cambodia, Hongkong, and Vietnam, and counting.
Collie, Ice and I welcomed Kuya Bernie on one of his pagbabalik-bayan all because of his pasalubong, hahaha. So, Kuya Bernie shared to us his journey, then, in Cambodia and Vietnam. He shared his taste of their food, the treatment of their locales, and practically, their belief system. Finally, he made this simple realization. He said that along his journeys, he learned that people travel and go to different places merely just to change the things that they see. I guess, he said this, out of the thought that he traveled mainly because of doing missions. Missionary works entail selfless attitude and beliefs. It brings charity and love. I used to think that I would travel countries to study. I never thought of working abroad because I love my country, the Philippines, so much that I would not want other countries to profit out of my skills and intelligence. Such a selfish way of thinking. It never occurred to me that people travel to see different sights, different people, different cultures just for the sake of experience. Somehow, like a vacation way. During my conversations with Kuya Bernie, I realized that money is not and should be a problem if a person wishes to travel the world. With faith, fate, and a hopeful desire to help or even lend other people your small hand are enough fuel to take you to places. They will be your ticket to travel the world.
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