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Neli Ivanova never really fit in anywhere. She never had any ambitions or big dreams like everybody else around her. She had hobbies and things she liked, but nothing that really made her heart skip a beat. Everything changed when her best friend Camellia went to study abroad and invited her to visit sometime. Neli was working a full-time job while being a university student at the same time and was very stressed and unhappy. She really wanted to have the money and free time to travel and visit many places she had only heard about or seen on the internet. Her friend was living her best life, meeting new people and travelling all over Poland. That was the thing that made her stop in her tracks and rethink her life. She was 19 and she was walking in the steps of her parents, who never really managed to graduate university and had always struggled financially. She did not want that. To always struggle and watch how people around her did fun things. A month after her realization she quit her job and booked her flight to Warsaw. This was her first time traveling abroad and she was all alone. She was thrilled! Boarding the airplane, her eyes were shining and she could hardly suppress her excitement. When the plane departed, she truly felt free and that became her favorite feeling. Neli met up with Camellia and together they visited many places and tried many different Polish foods. They met very interesting people and made new friends. Sadly, soon it was time for her to return home and start her old way of living again. That made her make an oath to herself. She would do anything to travel as much as possible so that she can experience this excitement again. She did not expect that as soon as she returned home after her visit in Poland, she would receive an invite from a friend who was in Mauritius. This time she did not even bat an eye and immediately agreed. A month later, holding her new passport she was once again in an airplane, leaping into the unknown, to a country she had never even imagined she would visit in her lifetime. Neli had always had a fear of deep waters, yet she was going to an island in the Indian Ocean. Once there, she and her friend made a pact. They would battle their fears together. Which meant snorkeling for her and bungee jumping for him, since he was afraid of heights. Despite their terror, they made it and actually felt awesome afterwards. That day she made another oath to herself. She would always try new things and never cower, because leaping into the unknown made her feel truly alive. With that in mind she came back home and started working on a better future for herself, a future that would make her feel happy and fulfilled.