hello i’m jessica i’m 30 years old and
I went from a position to
responsibility in a big
International business to adventurer
in backpack globe trotteuse in fact I
I left for a year alone in
across thirteen countries in south america
in oceania and south asia is everything
alone
alone in the world and there usually
when we hear that a trip around the
world alone the first reaction we
often hears cwa a world tour but
it must be great but not everything
alone
well not all alone why not everything
alone and well because loneliness
scary it’s scary not just
to travel it’s scary in life
in general
no one wants to be alone myself
I had a fear of loneliness and if
I told you today that the
solitude
it may be just the opposite
isolation that actually instead of
isolate ourselves from others
it could allow us
connect to ourselves and suddenly to
other months during this trip I
experienced creative loneliness
rather than destructive I made a
inner journey
a trip around the world but that’s
especially in this inner journey that
I want to take you today
so we’re going to leave together in this
journey you will see that the first
stage of this trip it is well
before the first plane that had me
taken to Malaysia at the time the
first step of this trip is the
click
what was a click in my
life for that I decide to give him a
radical turning of spilling all my
life because I had a cdi
just after a promotion I decided
to leave him
I made my apartment in Paris and
my cat has landed in the paws of my
grandmother
what made that at one time
given I had this click
me the first click it was
after a breakup
you will tell me breaks
love we all have in our lives
without necessarily we decide to go
to expatriate at the end of the world but this
breaking
– it was the first time actually
that I am experiencing is loneliness
it was seven years together
an engagement project in the trash
and then suddenly I’m
found alone this loneliness she
was imposed
I did not choose and suddenly with this
loneliness well bah there there are all
clichés that can be made of life
of single who appear so the
blackness of the painting
that’s the tragedy of fantasy
does someone who is single
my god and eat every night all
only one person is waiting for him every night
no plans here is hello the
depressed
except that we can decide to go out
head of the water and see to consider
things differently
as I told you for the
first time I was alone
although I have always been very
surrounded by my family of my friends there
I still found myself
everyday alone and well in fact
this loneliness that was imposed on me eh
Well, it was an opportunity to make a
point to make a point on my life to a
exact moment
here is a precise moment a moment t
I took a picture of my life and I
am saying good so today I am
where do I live is where
that made me want to do everything
question the motivations
for my work what is it that gives me
want to get up every day do
I’m happy it’s important to
ask this question at times of
make a point of asking yourself for that
to be for that purpose and that is what
I would like to be who I wanted to be
when I was little and I thought
oh my there when I’ll be big
rabies would like to be
three little things what they
have become these three little dots and
what did they become your
little point so that’s important to a
given moment to make this point
and then suddenly you realize that
my finally I have dreams that redo
area
these three little points I may have
want to finally realize them and there
suddenly there is a field of freedom that
we have a space of freedom
we say why not why is this
that I will go I will not try to go
realize dreams
alas the second leg of this trip
the second
the second stop to do together
it’s the consciousness of the field of
possible the opening of all
potential
so I had several dreams
I had a dream that was very
far was to make a big
travel the world
I had already spent six months in
indonesia and then like a lot of
people passionate about travel
I tried to leave punctually
in the year here I live in sri
lanka mexico iceland finland
in Madagascar for short periods
always a few weeks and there I
I told myself I ‘d like to take the
time on the long term
go to meet people we go the
take the time to discover the countries
to see this luxury of time actually do not
have date of return accurate this
it was a big dream that I had then
I had a second dream more
professional this one puts dreams on
can have all our life it’s not
that dreams of children who are
important dreams can be done
when you want in life
and me this professional dream that
I had it was to present
small documentaries travel for children
so I had a career in the
world of childhood
and then in the entertainment the
media and I told myself bah voila me
I find that only children who
deserves to have small documentaries
that interest them in the world of travel
discoveries if it’s done
fun and accessible way
we can interest his children then
I had absolutely no
experience neither as
presenter or videographer
neither as a director nor as a
that nothing at all in the video but
I had this dream and I
not say why not why is that
I will not try now that I have
this chance and this field of
possibilities in front of me
why did not I tighten up
at least to take a first step towards this
dream is so this is where I
decided to leave I decided to
to leave on my savings
I had saved 15000 euros I
sold my car and so I left
on this budget there travel for a year
around the world and so this loneliness
it was fundamental for this
creation emerging for me to
measure the possibility of going to reach
this dream is so here that’s it if the
moment the jump into the void
we take our first plane together
so you see I told you the
trip finally he started well
before the first plane then
withdraws solo yes but not alone
tells you in fact the fact of leaving
solo does not necessarily mean
that we will be traveling every day from
life alone I did not go to isolate myself
on a desert island it was not that
the idea is actually this trip during this
trip I have never met so much
from as many countries
different than this year and that has
been a fantastic and lying to good
souls be it with locals that
i met kim have taken very
quickly under their wing
because finally see a chick all
alone with his huge backpack and
well finally
Well that intrigued me then there
had a little empathy of
sympathy and that’s it I had I met
a lot of people from everything
horizon and then also the travelers I
met a lot of travelers because
that on the roads we are not everything
alone and I often did a bit of
way with travelers so no I
was not alone in my loneliness
and then to something else I have
decided to share my reports but
discovery with children well
safe in France
and then also on social networks
because I told myself so much to see if
my videos work so we go them
put on social networks
and then there is something
fantastic that was created and a
true community that emerged and
who followed my trip is then often
we hear rather negative things
on social networks on on
drifts of the social networks
I can tell you that there are
extremely beautiful things that happen
social networks of things
extremely positive because actually
the relationships I had with these people
there after my trip
she was not at all virtual she
was very real and the support that I have
receipts were was real when
I am in bolivia in a dormitory of 15
persons suffering from poisoning
huge food
Well, I can tell you that I
message that I received he was well
real concern because I share everything
my wonder like my galleys
except that despite everything in everyday life
must make choices and choices
done solo or am I going
to sleep
what did I eat or did
I go and all these cats all these choices
there you have to do them
and there for the first time I
discovered one of the wonders of the world
but then it’s not the one you
think the wonder of the world
it’s not the machu picchu it’s
the intuition that it puts that was my
first great discovery marvel
because finally the first
question that I’m asked about my trip
it’s about my security to
the soul was gone alone a woman
alone
so long on a trip but it was not
not dangerous fucking and in america
South
so yes that’s right I was in
South America
I went back from Chile to
Colombia going through Bolivia on
peru and the equator meaning that happens to me
no incident then except a small
light earthquake in ecuador
but except that I did not have any incident
why, because I did
trust my intuition every
days of this trip and never she has me
deceived in fact the intuition there all in
we except that in everyday life we do not
do not use it because in our
daily everything went to the scanner of
our surroundings and our families from
our friends the small choices like the
great choices
what you want to eat in the canteen
the color our scarf or if we
must resign here are the big choices
the small choices everything went to
scan of our friends except that when we
is traveling alone at the end of the world
the only person we can do
trust is oneself and here we are
obliged to listen to herself and this little
voice that seems nothing done in our
usual daily and well there the
takes on all its importance
I remember very well one of
first time I experienced
this intuition
I was in Thailand and I
I was getting ready to join gte in Laos and
I was about to join the
thailand and I met at the
to whom I shared my
project but little bit of the world on
children I love and meet in the
world and to share with children
in France
he said to me but super tac to come
see my I created a school in my
garden for all the children of my
village who do not go to school who
are out of school and then there
concretely I say yes but he
must do what he says bah you come I
take you here we go
so the idea was to go on his
moped without make-up without helmet at 80 km
from where I was and I knew him
for ten minutes
if I had done that at the scanner of my
family
and Mom and my friends the sis
and my god should not go except that
I thought I should
I’m going
and still today it remains one of
my most beautiful one of my most beautiful
moments of traveling because I have
discovered someone who really had
create a school and he proved to me
that he exists in this world
an inspiring humanity and this
intuition
we all have it in us we all have it in us
except that we do not use animals
they have this intuition there also ceased
their survival instinct they have a
animal instinct
we also have it we do not exploit at
daily there is a second one
second wonders of the world that I have
discovered during this trip this is the
ability to receive positive waves
and that’s huge as a wonder of
world
because in fact with a smile you can
to smile is the best
passport to enter the lives of
people and their getting them all
these positive waves because when we
see it we get it like a
standing boomerang and I can tell you
that actually when we decide to see the
life on the bright side
it sounds simple we hear that
since the dawn of time see the life of the
good side but I assure you that when
we do the exercise because it can
to be an exercise in directing one’s gaze
on positive things rather than
negative really suddenly all
changes everything in our daily lives
I do not say I did not have a problem
there were galleys in my journey
were not at all pink every
days I think that’s when we get
run over by lots of cockroaches
in a hurried life in a
airport does not dream
eat tarantulas in Asia and pig
of India in Peru a priori it does not
dream
a creature that lays us under the skin
coming out of the jungle
a priori it’s not dreaming and then
Here to 30 hours by bus between
Bolivian who eats chicken and a
German snoring a priori that makes
not dream either but me if I
choose to share with you with this
funny side and well it’s a choice
because I want to remember
of his galleys in a positive way from
positively on it and that makes it
it’s a choice we can all make
einstein he says in life we have two
choice do that
if everything was a miracle and do like
if nothing was a miracle and if they
chose the first option
I assure you that life becomes
more beautiful that it’s really something
thing that I could experience trying
to look at positive things then
I am often asked since I am
back home maybe even you
want to ask me the question is
then the return to reality at 3
often it makes me smile because in
did I was both feet in the
reality before during this trip
had both feet in a reality
she was just different from
the one before but today I
choose that this reality she will be
just as beautiful as my trip
and I tell you right now there is
no landing at this trip I have
decided not to land
because the trip I started
finally it’s a trip too
Inner which is much longer
that this one-year trip is actually
these wonders of the world there that
discover we can apply them in
our daily
this morning we woke up good there
had fog clermont ferrand
it’s up to us to choose if we say this
landscape there really it’s depressing
today or if we decide to find
a mysterious side to this church
that pierces the fog and all
these little notes of poetry and well
really if we do the exercise of
look at things this way
there he really goes life is more
so pretty of imposed solitude is
born a desired loneliness is
fundamental for this creation
emerge and this loneliness she was
creative link link to the
people I went solo but not all
alone
she was a creator of discovery
discovered staff and also she told me
learned to have a new look on
things
I do not say that you absolutely have to be
only to discover all this simply
when loneliness falls on us
well it’s up to us to do something
positive thing rather than staying
locked in negativity I say no
neither does it absolutely
seek all the time this loneliness
when you are in a couple family is
wonderful just simply this
challenge and is actually the journey
allows this challenge and because we
out of our comfort zone and in
out
of this comfort zone and that’s it
we can test ourselves test our intuition
test that’s all that allows us to
we feel alive in any case I you
wish everyone to discover your
wonders of the world and I wish you
a good trip
[Applause]
[Music]
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