If this doesn’t help you decide to achieve your dreams of traveling, then I don’t know what will…

If we do not offer ourselves to the

unknown, our senses dull, our world

becomes small and we lose our sense of

wonder. Our eyes will not lift to the

horizon; our ears will not hear the sounds

around us. We pass our days in a routine

that is both comfortable and limiting. We

soon wake up to find we have lost our

dreams in order to protect our days. Fear

of the unknown and the lure of the

comfortable space will conspire to keep

you from taking the chances you should

take.

But if you take a chance, you will never

regret the choice. To be sure, there will be

moments of doubt when you stand alone on

an empty road in the pouring rain, or when

you are ill with fever in a rented bed. But

as the pains of the moment will come; so

will they ever fade away. In the end you

will be so much richer, so much stronger, so

much happier and so much the better

person for having taken risk, and hardship.

There will be nothing to compare to the

insight you have gained.

To all of my loyal PTM followers… I’d like to introduce a new website to you that I’ve been working on for the past few months. BargainsMakeCents.com just launched about two weeks ago and it’s going great so far!

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Let me know what you think!

Eiffel Tower - Paris, France - (2008)
ALL PHOTOS WERE TAKEN BY (R.Gargiulo), UNLESS CREDITED OTHERWISE!
© 2008 Pause The Moment

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