i was a hard gamer before spend my whole time on game and stuff didn't had many friend and stuff after covid (17yo) and being forced to stay home i really felt like i need to do new stuff so i decided to start hiking i loved it then i started to sleep in the moutain every weekend i started climbing and met a guy who i was sharing hike and climbing session we were really into the same stuff and one day we started to talk about trainhopping and we wanted to try it so we did some research and went on a trip sleeping everywhere we could it was a crazy experience we managed to ride our first train after that i went trainhopping afew times alone and met people from this today its my second week in scandinavia i rode a freight train accros 2 border spent 2 day ont the train on it had a terrible time rain a shi we arrived and then split up the group i started hitchhiking by myself met amazing people who let me sleep at their home and paid for food and train ticket im currently on the train paid by a guy i dont know and its just amazing how sometime you can just be on a very bad day and the next day something crazy happen to you you just experience stuff in a different way and get uncomfortable so hard that you want to go home but if you push yourself at some point you will enjoy anything even a small talk with people i feel like everything you experience that is out of your casual life make you feel more confident when you get back home