What was your best decision? We asked three women. Spoiler: The answers are always about traveling.
Our series "3 generations tell"
In the editorial office, we regularly discuss topics that move and concern us – about finding a partner, love, parents, beauty, the meaning of life or our relationship to the job. It is always striking how different the different generations tick.
That is why we started the series "3 generations tell", in which women from the BRIGITTE cosmos have their say. It's worth looking in again and again!
Today's question is: "What was the best decision of your life?"
Celin (23): Backpacking in Asia
The best decision of my life? Interrupting my studies, activating my sister and taking a backpacking tour through Asia. "If not now, when?" We thought and plunged ourselves into the unknown. At that time we described it as "adventure", our grandma as "crazy idea". No matter what, it was the most exciting time of our life. The experiences we had no one can take away from us. Dear grandma, that was the best crazy idea we ever had.
Katrin (30): Go the Way of St. James
I made the best decision of my life a good year ago. I quit my job, packed my backpack and went the Way of St. James. It was almost 1,000 kilometers from the starting point in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port in France to Santiago de Compostela and on to Fisterra and Muxia. In a total of five weeks, I discovered life in a condensed form: all feelings, thoughts, concerns, hopes came to the table, laughter and tears accompanied me. Sometimes I enjoyed the path and wished it would never end. Sometimes I tortured myself through the day and cursed that I had ever decided to do this ordeal. How the end looks and what you take with you from the pilgrimage, you never really know at the beginning. It depends on the person, the motivation of the trip and the life situation from which you start. One thing is certain for me: this hike changed me forever.
Susanne (52): Let chance decide
The best decision of my life was to plan as little as possible and only to pursue the things that are really close to my heart. I left everything else to chance. The only thing I really wanted was to live abroad and see a lot of the world, and I did that. Everything else happened: the job after my supposedly "breadless" degree in literature and even the child I got 14 years ago. I am glad that I have almost never sacrificed the present to an imagined future – and that I have not been chasing after goals that might have turned out to be deceptive anyway.