In your 30’s, 50’s or 70’s: there isn’t a right age to follow your dreams

Some days ago, we were driving down a gravel road in what seemed to be rural Australia (thanks, Google!) when we realized how surreal that moment was. We were literally on the other side of the ocean on our way to one of the most famous beaches in the land of kangaroos—something hard to believe if you’re someone who took more than 10 years to see the ocean for the first time.

As kids, our families didn’t use to travel much. We just traveled out of Rio Grande do Sul, the state we lived in Brazil, when we were already in our late teens. Our first experience abroad came as an opportunity for an exchange program in our adulthood. Even so, the dream of wandering around had always been there! Maybe, we can blame the countless books we read as kids or the movies that took us around the world. We may not know the exact reason, but we’ve always felt the need to see the world with our own eyes.

It took us 30 years to be ready to live this dream! There were some moments when we really thought it was too crazy, but as Walt Disney used to say:

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

Dreams don’t come with an expiration date. 30, 40, 80… it doesn’t matter how long we take to make them come true; what matters are the lessons we learn in the process.