Instead of accumulating assets like friends of the same age, Hong Anh spends money on travel experiences to live her current passion.
Nguyen Hong Anh (born in 1998), lives and works in Hanoi, full of pride when thinking about his travel experiences. At the age of 23, the young girl has set foot in 11 countries and about 50 provinces in the country. According to Hong Anh, the biggest thing that she trades to pursue her passion for travel is to escape the safe shell. When she has to choose between saving, accumulating assets for the future, or pursuing her passions in the present, she chooses to pay for trips to live to the fullest as soon as she can.
As a very thoughtful person, always thinking ahead, the young girl decided to spend her money on travel experiences of a lifetime such as exploring Son Doong cave, Tien cave (Quang Binh), paragliding in Mu Cang Chai (Quang Binh province), and paragliding in Mu Cang Chai. Yen Bai)… to get past your own safety mark. Currently, she is working for a media company, in addition to earning extra income from stock investment and other freelance work.
The trip that Hong Anh is most impressed with until now is to explore Son Doong cave. In addition to challenging her own fitness, the girl also put herself in a “difficult position” with the question of whether to spend a large amount of savings to pay for a journey of only 4 days. However, Hong Anh believes in the law of attraction that as long as I have a big enough desire, and I constantly remind myself of it, I will surely one day have it. Luck really came to the 23-year-old girl when in the same period of time, the price of the tour to Son Doong decreased, she found a companion, and the sources of income increased due to profitable investment… she decided to go up. road with a savings of 65 million dong.
Spending a large amount of money, but Hong Anh received a memorable journey when conquering the largest cave in the world. Whenever he remembers the moments when he received the bright and sparkling golden rays of the sun from inside the cave, Hong Anh calls it the light of heaven. “You just imagine yourself walking in a dark cave, having to rely entirely on flashlights to move when the light appears. The happiest moment for me is when I reach sinkhole 1 and sinkhole 2, or when I went out to the cave entrance on the last day. I felt very clearly the vibrations that were both fragile and intense when standing in front of that magical beauty. It was a reward for the expedition, everyone was dumbfounded and couldn’t stop complaining. satisfied”, Hong Anh beamed when recounting his feelings.
The journey also did not go completely smoothly when the girl was exhausted on the last day, finding it difficult to climb the rope over the Vietnam Wall 90 meters. “There were 3 climbs, I had to sit down and rest before continuing. However, I was tired but still happy when the assistants were always beside me to cheer and support”, Hong Anh shared.
In addition to Son Doong, Hong Anh also challenged his own safety threshold on many other trips. The time when the girl felt she reached the most threshold was the climb to Ta Lien Son mountain. The original plan of the group was at 12 o’clock to start climbing down the mountain and out of the forest at about 5 o’clock, but because of a problem, the group could only get out of the forest at midnight.
“Trekking inherently has risks, trekking in the night is even more dangerous. At first, when it was dusk, I was still ‘deaf, not afraid of guns’, still actively looking at the flashlight and chirping. But when the darkness began to engulf everything, the lights gradually ran out of batteries, legs started to ache, trembled from the pressure of climbing down continuously for 6 hours, moving in the dark couldn’t go as fast as During the day, I can’t stay optimistic anymore,” Hong Anh shared that unforgettable moment.
At the climax, the girl slipped on a small slope, her hands clinging to the rotten tree, but her legs were too weak to stand. As an amateur climber, how much repressed at that time broke into tears, but the girl only dared to sob for fear of affecting everyone’s spirit. At such times, Hong Anh officially “trades” her own safety milestone to feel the experiences related to survival for herself. In the future, she still wants to experience more challenging and adventurous trips to conquer herself and to expand her safety milestone day by day.
In order to nurture her passion for experience travel, Hong Anh also “trades off” girls’ interests. “In the past, I used to shop indiscriminately, sometimes following the trend of buying expensive items that were really unnecessary. I spent a lot of money on clothes, miscellaneous items, accessories. Until one day In the afternoon, after a trip to Hang Tien, I suddenly thought that I don’t really need those things. They usually only give me temporary happiness. Many things I buy and get bored as soon as I hold them in my hand.” He shared. The girl decided to spend more reason to be able to exchange for a trip with many more memorable and meaningful experiences. If she liked an item, she would think about it for a week. If, after a week, she still feels strongly about it, she will find three reasons to convince herself that it works for her.
Hong Anh often shares her travel experiences on her personal blog, which has been maintained for 4 years. Many thanks, admitting being inspired by this blog makes Hong Anh consider it encouragement for her to continue her journey, experience and return with more interesting stories, continue to inspire. inspiration for the people around. Fortunately, there is a supportive family, so Hong Anh’s passion for travel does not face barriers. Sometimes, the girl is shaken when she sees friends sharing about the assets they have accumulated or at the same age, many people are ready to buy a house. However, the 23-year-old girl thinks that money is earned but time is not, and that is also the motivation for her to always remind herself regularly, to live life to the fullest now so that you don’t have to regret it later. regret.
“Maybe I’ll regret it later because my kids don’t live with passion. When I don’t have a family, but I have health and time in my hands, I’ll just keep nurturing this passion. The biggest barrier right now is probably just that. myself,” Hong Anh said. Follow vnexpress