Disclaimer: sorry if this falls into the mediocre and vague category of questions, but I don't know how else to put it.
I'm a recent graduate, came out of uni in the UK last year. Haven't found anything I really want to do with my life yet in terms of a career, so have been muddling along in a call centre for the time being. With respect to this question, it probably doesn't help that my university (Oxford) is really the kind of place that holds your hand - at least in terms of providing accommodation, food etc.
I'm sure that I want to travel and see the world, especially now that I'm in a time of transition, but I cannot even begin to imagine where to start. Every time my mind returns to the subject, and starts to think about the impossible complexity of the world outside my small country, I am hit with almost a sense of dread. Part of that dread is, I suspect, the worry that I will never pluck up the courage/resolve/whatever to actually do it.
Don't misunderstand me, I have been abroad - many times. However, it has been exclusively in Europe, and only on what would be called holidays rather than 'travel'. When I hear or read about people going away for long periods of time, like a year or more, I wonder how can they do it? Does it cost enormous sums of money (which I lack)? Do they work while away? If so how on Earth does one organise such a thing? Down to even the basics, how do they choose where to go, how to move between places, everything.
Part of this post is really just me tossing my frustrations out into the void. However, if anyone has any words of encouragement for a young man huddled in the corner of a room made of windows but no doors, they would be appreciated.
TL;DR How do you brave and wonderful people look at the world in all it's magisterial complexity and get out of bed and explore it?