Would you like more adventure? If so, what kind?

That’s the problem with us, digital nomads The life gets so easy, handy and comfortable, thanks to so many different ways we can spend our time (like change our place every 2nd day or just stay at the beach with coconuts and chill there), that after some time it actually gets difficult to find any next challenges for us.

I was travelling for 1.5 years around SE Asia and Europe. Now I’m having a short break by living and working in 1 city. It was super cool in the beginning [meeting my old peers], then quite depressing in the middle [“wtf am I doing here? Thai beach was much better, people didnt have to work 9-5 there”], but now it’s getting quite good (new friends and social circles; relationships; took up some new skills]. However I planned to go travelling again in a next month or so, lol.

Anyway, I’m still going through that ‘what-to-do’ problem, but what I’ve seen recently that works for me is:

• find some good soul mates [force yourself to meet them, if u haven’t yet]
• pick up a good goal for the future [so you dont end up going cluelessly somewhere with no direction]

I did have those things all my previous life, until I reached the digital nomad point. Since being a kid I wanted to travel around the world and be financially independent… which I managed to accomplish. Now the problem is: what the hell do you do now? ; )

Try picking up some hobbies / new skills. Set up some goals/challenges for yourself. I started to play drums recently and take some theatre classes. This opened up a whole new world for me. You can do it either locally or on your travel. It can be personal goals as well, like ‘be more humorous’, ‘become a story teller’, etc.

Also recently I noticed that as soon I have some good plans for myself for the nearest time, I’m 100% focused and don’t have time for philosophical contemplations like this one Knowing this fact, a while after I did some brainstorming about what I actually enjoy and what I could be doing in next ~5-10 years. I think I’m in the end of my crisis finally now. I just have to pick one of the few options. “Life is the art of choosing”, right.

did you try slow travel / going more in depth, seeking density?

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@adrianbeckett79 maybe the whole travel thing has become routine for you and you are no longer doing things outside of your comfort zone. Maybe make a list of thing you have yet to do and then prioritise doing them? Also stop doing things that you find boring. Identify things that you find fun and make time to do that instead.

@sonjameyer you should probably stop expecting other people to make life fun for you… they will rarely meet your expectation. I guess this depends heavily on your personality and whether your introverted or extroverted, but maybe try learn to have fun when your are alone.

I guess for some context… for several years I was increasingly bored of well I guess life. I’m pretty sure I had a quarter life crisis where I sort of just decided I needed to make my life more fun and enjoyable because otherwise whats the point. What I found was not only was I bored of life, I was also very largely unhappy with it. It took some time but I was able to separate the two feelings.
For happiness, I practised being content, and slowly phased out people, things, jobs, habits etc that made me unhappy.
For fun, well I realised the younger me was much better suited at having fun, so I tried to remember everything I thought about as a child that I wanted to do, and one by one i’m getting it done. Think of this as your bucket list as a child. Its been working amazingly well. The other day I went sky diving for the first time and in the video I am unquestionably enjoying it.

Oops, wrote more then expected… not even sure its relevant… anyway curious to see what others are doing…

Do a thru-hike! It’ll change your life. Nothing like experiencing the world at 3 miles an hour.

Try having kids and taking them along for the adventure. It as yet to get boring.

Yes. Definitely. I’m not sure what kind… that’s a question I’m trying to answer for myself too.

For context, my story goes like this: I travelled a bit through Asia & Europe in my early 20s, then started doing the Digital Nomad thing in my mid-late 20s. Spent 2.5 years away without going home. I’ve been ‘home’ for almost 2 years (apart from 1 month in Thailand and 1 month in Nepal) and am planning 6+ months in Central/South America from August this year.

The thing I’ve come to realise is that no matter where I am or what I’m doing - I feel bored. When I’m at home I’m bored because - you know the story - even my most adventurous friends just don’t seem to have the energy to do all that much, most of the time.

When I’m away I feel bored pretty much for the same reason. The boredom is obviously either a problem with me (I’m just never satiated no matter what I’m doing!) or a problem with the world and the fact that no matter where you go, people are complacent and… well… boring. They don’t have fire.

I do think it’s me though. Because I went to Nepal with 2 close friends and on several occasions I got frustrated with them for being boring. Once when we were ON A 10 DAY HIKE because all they wanted to do was sleep at the end of the day and not sit up and have a whisky with me. May I remind you that they were walking up to 6 hours per day at altitude and were desperately exhausted! And another time on the day we arrived back from the hike and they didn’t want to have a few drinks and see some live music to celebrate with me. I was desperate for more, despite being in Nepal and doing something incredibly adventurous and amazing. More deep chats, more sponteneity, more randomness, more new interactions, more cultural experiences, MORE FUN.

So when you find the answer to the question of what kind of adventure, or what kind of people will satisfy a person after doing and experiencing so much, please let me know.