Call it karma, grace... simply being human

Dan Sobey, who runs Sobey Fitness based in Plymouth with his wife Lisa, says travelling in Asia offered a chance to ask, to learn and to explore spirituality

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WE were meant to take the 'trip of a lifetime' back in March 2020 for Lisa's (my long-haired boss's) big birthday. But Covid had other ideas, and our friend Boris told us all to go to our rooms. So instead of the tropical island of Koh Samui, we celebrated in our back garden in sweet little Plymouth — how life has changed since then.

Back then, we joked: "We'll go for your 55th!"

Well, here we are. Five years later. And we finally made it.

Thailand — and Asia more broadly — offers a culture very different from our Western European ways. And we love it. The food, the weather, the people, the belief systems — it's all so vibrant, so friendly, and yet strangely familiar. It's a reminder that no matter how far we roam, we're all pilgrims on this shared experience called life. An adventure not just of geography, but of biography — filling our lives like we fill our passports, with stamps and stories and snapshots of memory.

I'm a spiritual being on a human journey, and to live life fully is to experience it deeply — and that makes my soul soar.