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世界那么大，要不要去看看 　　一场说走就走的旅行真的能让你跳出沉闷生活的樊笼，到达理想生活的彼岸吗？也许，一切并不像你想象得那么简单…… 　　 　　Around four years ago today， I was sitting in an office， staring out the window， dreaming of travel. I’d finished university a few years earlier and instead of continuing to chase my passions， I had stayed put1）. I was trapped like a deer in the headlights of life. Paralysed and unable to do anything. 　　My friends all seemed to have gone on to better things. But me？ I still lived with my parents， moving between menial jobs， doing not a lot of anything. Just sitting in an office day-by-day. Staring out that window. Dreaming. 　　Always my dreams turned to travel. Adventure， excitement. I would get depressed at work wondering about why I wasn’t on a beach instead. Or standing at the top of a mountain. 　　I was fooling myself. I didn’t want adventure. I wanted to escape. To get out of the dull hole that had become my life. So I booked a one-way ticket to Canada and soon found myself on a working holiday. 　　In the weeks before leaving， a lot of co-workers， friends， and family started to fill my head with doubts. How are you going to survive！？ How will you manage？ I didn’t know the answers. But I felt like I was barely surviving in England， so leaving didn’t faze me. My life was about to change for the better. It had happened to so many others. Travel had changed their lives. It would change mine too. This was the start of my own inspiring story. 　　One Year Later 　　Exactly one year later I was in Canada. Sitting in an office much like the one I’d left behind. Staring out of another window. Wondering what had happened with my inspiring travel story. I still had a job I didn’t enjoy， most of my time was spent doing things I didn’t care about. Still， now I had a counter-argument to these woes. They didn’t matter because I was travelling. I was having an adventure. That was enough. 　　I reasoned that working a job I didn’t love was worth the sacrifice. I was living in a new place， had good fr