Lately, Many people have been messaging me, How can you travel so much ? Take me with you, Tell me how much you spent on travel last year, where do you get so much money to travel, etc etc.
I do not know how many of you know that a LOT of people in the world travel a lot, specially in the Backpacking world, they travel for months and months and they spend very small amounts of money in their travels.
Travel is something that makes you into a better human being, and I highly recommend it to everyone, The means of the travels do eventually come to you.
My travel experiences began when I was 8 years old, and I went to the United States first time with my Aunt and 2 cousins for a month, I was very young, and I was a very very silent observer.
Later when I was 15 years old, I travelled to Dubai with my father and while he slept entire week in the hotel, trying to get relaxed, I for one walked around the entire week experimenting with looking at things I have never seen before, and running around, and since I had some savings, I took them and bought more Commodore 64 supplies from the small vendors in Dubai Deira market, sold them more games, and bought more joy sticks and power supplies to the Commodore 64 computer.
I knew how the market worked because I went, asked questions, made many many many mistakes, but it gave me the confidence to be finally able to articulate my questions in a way where I was not looked at is a 15 year old boy but someone who may be a potential customer for them.
Upon my return to Karachi, Pakistan , I was asked HOW is Dubai, and my answer was Like a CLEAN Version of Karachi, Yet today it is a different story than 1989.
I have travelled now to 60+ countries & first time when I met backpackers was in 1994 when I was given a grant by the Government of Australia to travel to Comdex Australia and after the Show I found that there is such a thing as BACKPACKING which my friend, who I made while at the show took me to, and that is where I met Heroshi Hasigawa , A Japanese Traveller, Who I called Allah Mian ki Gaain, and who was there spending his 1 months savings by doing work of delivering Movies to peoples houses.
When I was 15 or 16 I also Travelled all over Pakistan for promoting our Commodore 64 products , and Along with me was Faisal Saleem Rathod and Khalid Humayoon who went all over Pakistan with me.
The money came from the work we were doing of Selling Computers at that time.
Most of my life, I have travelled on the money I made, I have lived in good and bad placed, but mostly budget places, as that is where I met most of the HUMAN BEINGs who helped me look at the world in a very different way, then I was told the world is.
Moral of this small note ? Be envious of my travel if you want to be, but the purpose of my travel is to learn and take you along with me, to explore the world, that you may or may not have seen.
Why Be envious ? so that you can also SPARK a desire to travel and see the world with your own 2 eyes, instead of reading or being told what is out there.
How to get the means ? Means are provided by god, when you really want something, start saving, travel small, travel locally, sit in a bus one day and go from corner to corner, this is what I did, when I had no money to spend also, and it allowed me to see places within my city which I thought could not exist, and remember, do NOT forget to make a friend on the way of these travels.
Which reminds me of a time, when we were going to Punjab on the train when I was 15 and a fellow become our friend, and he took us to his village and cooked nice chicken for us, which was not the best tasting chicken in the world, but It made a huge mark as that man was not full of a lot of means.
Stay blessed, Keep sharing, Keep learning, And more you do it, more you will really learn that you really DO NOT know anything, as there is always way more out there than you think you know. :)
Lately, Many people have been messaging me, How can you travel so much ? Take me with you, Tell me how much you spent on travel last year, where do you get so much money to travel, etc etc.
I do not know how many of you know that a LOT of people in the world travel a lot, specially in the Backpacking world, they travel for months and months and they spend very small amounts of money in their travels.
Travel is something that make's you into a better human being, and I highly recommend it to everyone, The means of the travels do eventually come to you.
My travel experiences began when I was 8 years old, and I went to the United States first time with my Aunt and 2 cousin's for a month, I was very young, and I was a very very silent observer.
Later when I was 15 years old, I travelled to Dubai with my father and while he slept entire week in the hotel, trying to get relaxed, I for one walked around the entire week experimenting with looking at things I have never seen before, and running around, and since I had some savings, I took them and bought more Commodore 64 supplies from the small vendor's in Dubai Deira market, sold them more game's, and bought more joy sticks and power supplies to the Commodore 64 computer.
I knew how the market worked because I went, asked questions, made many many many mistakes, but it gave me the confidence to be finally able to articulate my questions in a way where I was not looked at is a 15 year old boy but someone who may be a potential customer for them.
Upon my return to Karachi, Pakistan , I was asked HOW is Dubai, and my answer was Like a CLEAN Version of Karachi, Yet today it is a different story than 1989.
I have travelled now to 60+ countries & first time when I met backpackers was in 1994 when I was given a grant by the Government of Australia to travel to Comdex Australia and after the Show I found that there is such a thing as BACKPACKING which my friend, who I made while at the show took me to, and that is where I met Heroshi Hasigawa , A Japanese Traveller, Who I called Allah Mian ki Gaain, and who was there spending his 1 month's savings by doing work of delivering Movies to peoples houses.
When I was 15 or 16 I also Travelled all over Pakistan for promoting our Commodore 64 products , and Along with me was Faisal Saleem Rathod and Khalid Humayoon who went all over Pakistan with me.
The money came from the work we were doing of Selling Computers at that time.
Most of my life, I have travelled on the money I made, I have lived in good and bad placed, but mostly budget places, as that is where I met most of the HUMAN BEING's who helped me look at the world in a very different way, then I was told the world is.
Moral of this small note ? Be envious of my travel if you want to be, but the purpose of my travel is to learn and take you along with me, to explore the world, that you may or may not have seen.
Why Be envious ? so that you can also SPARK a desire to travel and see the world with your own 2 eyes, instead of reading or being told what is out there.
How to get the mean's ? Mean's are provided by god, when you really want something, start saving, travel small, travel locally, sit in a bus one day and go from corner to corner, this is what I did, when I had no money to spend also, and it allowed me to see places within my city which I thought could not exist, and remember, do NOT forget to make a friend on the way of these travels.
Which remind's me of a time, when we were going to Punjab on the train when I was 15 and a fellow become our friend, and he took us to his village and cooked nice chicken for us, which was not the best tasting chicken in the world, but It made a huge mark as that man was not full of a lot of means.
Stay blessed, Keep sharing, Keep learning, And more you do it, more you will really learn that you really DO NOT know anything, as there is always way more out there than you think you know. :)
