Last year, Chris’s younger brother quit his job and left Toronto to move back to Australia. But before he did that, he spent about two months traveling around Southeast and South Asia, exploring areas that I haven’t been to yet, including Nepal, India, and the country side of Malaysia.

Is it sad that the first thing I think of when someone quits their job to go travel for an extended period of time is health insurance? What will they do for health insurance? What will they do if something happens to them, God forbid? Oh, wait. Ben is an Australian citizen. Australia has universal healthcare. He doesn’t have to worry about what happens to him because job or no job, he has health insurance fully covered.

Even with Obamacare now, it’s scary to think about not having a job and relying on the broken system that we have now. I just can’t understand people who don’t think that the right to life also means the right to healthcare, because without health, what do we have? We don’t really have a life, do we? The concerns that plague us as young Americans aren’t even thoughts at all in the minds of people in Canada and Australia, who don’t have to worry about these same senseless things. I thought about this when a client told me her colleague left the company to travel Thailand for a third of the year. Maybe she didn’t get health insurance and just winged it. Let life take its course!

I’m too much of a thinker to be that spontaneous, though.