The Freedom of Traveling Light
Story★★★★Karen and I met a fellow when we were scuba diving in Hawaii a couple weeks ago, and he said, he says, when I travel, I don’t take anything with me, the airlines, he says, I got a little handbag and I just go from country, and he said, I mean, he got a pass, you don’t think he can do it anymore, but he was telling us, he got a pass on this airline, you can go anywhere in the world, the airline flew.
It was a world pass. He had to do it within a year. And he’d go from 1 country and he’d just take his toothbrush and a few things and he’d go wherever he wanted. He was a very successful photographer.
He’d work there. And I just thought, I’m kind of...I envied the freedom with which he would travel around the world. He tells about all these exotic places that he went to and said, no, I don’t take anything with me. When I get there, you can buy food there, you can buy clothes there.
He said, then I don’t have to worry about anything.
Batchelor, Doug, “02 Worrying About Stuff” (AudioVerse teaching 29686).
The point
The speaker recounts meeting a successful photographer who traveled the world with only a small handbag, utilizing an airline pass. This man explained that by carrying nothing, he had nothing to worry about, illustrating the freedom and lack of anxiety that comes from detachment from material possessions.