Do you dream about moving abroad? Especially when it comes to love and romance. I feel like I keep seeing all of these traveling, blogging couples that explore the world together on their journey of adventurous love. Even my old post about breaking up with my boyfriend is a little falsely positive. Oh, the Southeast Asia backpacker scene. Tanned, muscled, barely clothed, rugged⦠and they even have interesting personalities and stories! Well⦠some of them. Even the girls are beautiful.
Fresh faced, tanned, covered in bug bites and scars, with a sloppy messy bun of hair; the backpacker girls exude a natural beauty that can only come from happiness. I usually wear a bit of makeup year-round to cover up my dark circles and make my eyes stand out a bit more. I wore dirty clothes and my hair was always a frizzy mess, but I felt beautiful. For me, the guys on the road are just so incredibly interesting, intelligent, passionate and exciting. They know what they want and go get it.
Being single while backpacking is fun, and everyone should try it sometime. I never once wished I had a boyfriend to travel with. I was just having so much fun! Javier of Mi Aventura Viajando. Getting hurt on the road is possible, especially with how easy it is to connect to people. But you know what? So many manly distractions, so little timeβ¦. Being single was really fun for about five weeks, and then I went back to China and reality crashed down all around me.
Go somewhere with no friends, no boyfriend back home, and stay single for a while. Learn about yourself, make new friends, explore new cultures and travel solo. Why share with a boy when you can eat the whole bowl yourself? So⦠last year was lonely. I lived in the middle of nowhere Chinese countryside by myself. Not really conducive to meeting guys. Let alone the fact that they barely even spoke mandarin, and spent their time staring at me while chain-smoking. Last year was a huge dud when it came to dating.
I barely even had any friends to hang out with, let alone a boyfriend. Now my life is a bit different. Now there are boys everywhere. I think the main issue is that the dating culture is just too vastly different for me to be interested. Theres a few hotties from other Asian countries around here, but I just have yet to be interested in any Chinese guys on campus. So who are all these guys that are around? I was into it.. How exactly is this ruining your love life, Richelle?
