Kia ora,

“Every stage of the journey - departure, travel, arrival, return. The ultimate goal is not to set foot in a certain country, but to understand and gain a new self. This is the meaning of 2GO.”

While everyone else is working hard in class, I'm working hard. Then everyone graduate and go to work, then I diligently travel. By the time my friends around me had spent many years striving for their careers to blossom, I left to go to school. This stage of life is filled with "bad energy" in a very "me" way, and maybe later on, I will realize that education is just one of the ways for me to see this world.
“Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be” - Flowers for Algernon (by the way, promoting Flowers on Algernon's Grave - a cute and heartbreaking book, because it's heartbreaking cute).

But it's okay, the romantic universe, rivers and mountains, every bit of warmth in the human world is worth moving forward. Ahead of these days lies the end of the Earth - Aotearoa.