Afraid of what to go through

My biggest shame is not fear of death, but fear of life.

- Mike Intell

An ordinary office worker, Mike Intell, made a crazy decision at the age of 37. He gave up his well-paid journalist job and donated only three dollars to his homeless tramp. The clean underwear, from the sunny California, hits the United States by hitchhiking and the kindness of strangers.

His destination is the Horn of Terror in North Carolina on the East Coast of the United States.

This is just a hasty decision he made when his spirit was about to collapse. Some afternoon he suddenly cried because he asked himself a question: If someone tells me that the death is coming today, will I regret it? The answer is so sure. Although he has a good job, a beautiful cohabiting girlfriend, relatives and friends, he found that he has never made any bets in his life, and there is no peak or bottom in his smooth life.

He cried for his weak first half.

Between the thoughts, he chose North Carolina's horror angle as the ultimate goal, in order to symbolize his determination to conquer all fear in life.

He reviewed himself and honestly opened a list of his fears: when he was a child, he was afraid of babysitters, fear of postman, fear of birds, fear of cats, fear of snakes, fear of bats, fear of darkness, fear of the sea, fear of flying, fear of the city. I am afraid of wilderness, afraid of excitement and fear of loneliness, fear of failure, fear of success, fear of mental breakdown... He is omnipotent, but seems to be a heroic reporter.

The cowardly 37-year-old man received a note from his grandmother before he went on the road: "You will be raped on the road." But he succeeded, more than 4,000 miles, seventy-eight meals, depending on eight The kindness of the twelve strangers.

I have not received any money gifts, sleeping in a wet sleeping bag in the thunderstorms, and there are several guys like road killers or robbers who frightened him; in the home of the nomads, they worked in exchange for accommodation and lived several times. Broken family, met many good people with mental illness, he finally came to the corner of the horror, received a cash card sent by his girlfriend. He is not trying to prove that money is useless, but to face all fears with such a difficult journey that normal people will find bored.

The horror angle is here, but the horror angle is not terrible. The original name "horror horn" was taken by a 16th-century explorer, originally called "CaPeFaire", and was nicknamed "CapeFear." Just a mistake.

Mike Intell finally understood: "The name is wrong, just like my own fear. I now understand that I have been afraid to do wrong things. My biggest shame is not fear of death, but fear of life."

It took six weeks to get to a place that was not related to my imagination. What did he get?

What is obtained is not the purpose, but the process. Although bitter, although I never want to come again, it is a sweet journey of confidence in my memories, like life.

Maybe we will find that the destination that has been hard to reach for half a day is just a "mistake".

But as long as that is the way we are willing to go, it is not white.

After reading Mike's book, "Traveling Without Money," I always think of his story when I am afraid that I don't know if I have the ability to do something I want to do or a trip that I want to go.

"I am afraid of what, go through and talk." I said to myself, "It is easier than hitting me on the road!"