If you could take a one year, paid sabbatical from work what would you do? I'd travel Europe and/or live at a Buddhist monastery in India….

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I would spend 2-4 weeks in as many different countries as I could. I think I'd start in Asia and work my way east into Europe, then to Africa and eventually over to South America, time permitting. A year off just to travel sounds like such a dream.

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I don’t think I’d travel that much. Maybe one decent family beach vacation. I’d spend my time starting a garden and doing something volunteer wise with animals. Having the opportunity to just be bored would honestly be such a nice change of pace. Feels like I have a tiny bit of time for everything and nothing really is satisfying to do because there is always something else right around the corner.

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That’s fair, I miss being bored too. Sometimes traveling can be a pain in the butt…. So much planning and waiting around to hop on planes etc… normalize couch rot 🫡

I would probably start off by doing absolutely nothing, it would be so nice to just get to relax without any work stress creeping into my life. I'd also definitely like to mix in some travel, Italy is somewhere that I've always wanted to go so I'd take advantage of my time off to get to finally travel there.

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I would be awful at that if they’ve made me not speak, I typically cannot stay quiet for more than an hour even if no one’s home with me.

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Tell me you are an extrovert without saying you’re an extrovert 🫶🏼

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