Happy Loner Traveller’s 27th Birthday (A Simple Ordinary Guy Who Lived Life Extraordinarily)

              Most of the people think that what I am referring to as an “Extraordinary Life” is a life lived luxuriously, eating pleasurable foods and travelling lavishly in many parts of the Philippines. But they are all wrong… Because what I mean by an “Extraordinary Life” is deeper than what many people think, it is filled with more purpose and meaning, it is a life lived significantly with the discovery of true inner joy and faith formed within oneself… All people has this but only few realize that they have this gift given by our God to influence and change all the people in the world to have a better view about their lives and the world as how they see it… So now, I can finally say that Armie “Happy Loner Traveller” Yuson, a simple ordinary guy has lived his 27 years of existence extraordinarily by using what he has which is his love for writing, photography and video documentary in inspiring and touching people’s lives to make our world a better and wonderful place to live in…

            I have a lot of advocacies in life but these 3 main things sum up all of my passion… The First one is to promote Philippine Tourism, we have wonderful natural resources, one of the best in the world, I would want to promote what we have to the world because I am so proud of my country, the Philippines… The Second one is I help and train people to be tour guides in local places that I visit in order for them to see the possibility of a fantastic work in our tourism industry, thereby allowing the increase of job opportunities and eradicating poverty in the Philippines… The third one is I’m teaching everyone to protect and preserve our mother nature, I am against to those people who try to change the natural architecture of our earth, I am against to those who try to commercialize a fascinating place by building steel structures that would destroy the innate magnificence of a place’s natural wonder...

And another calling of mine is for the past 11 years, every Christmas, I try to help one family who has nothing at all to build their own business, a “Sari-Sari Store” where they could start to make it grow and become their source for bread & butter. I teach them on how to run their business because I realized that if you will just feed them, after that, it’s gone, they will be hungry again. Well as, if you teach them on how to handle their own business, the flow of help would be continuous and they could also pass to others the help you have given them, it also trains them to be more productive rather than letting them wait for another feeding program. Recently, I visited the 11 families that I’ve helped and Thanked God I’m so happy because their business are still existing and it has helped them a lot, their children graduated from high school and even college because of the money that came from the “Sari-Sari Store”.

With the current technology like social networking sites and the arising of new forms of businesses, I also use these tools to my advantage, I created a page named “Filipino Pharmacist”, which in its 2 years, has helped 59 Pharmacist find their jobs that they love and have helped their families as well. Also, with the new business I’m in right now, “VMobile”, It has allowed me to expand my views regarding businesses, that I could help other people by letting them see the opportunity that this business can offer, not only that, I am also helping them maximize their potentials by developing their personalities in a more optimistic and approachable way. And I’m given the chance to help those who want to have their own simple livelihood. Also, opening their connections in gaining more friends…

            And all the greatest gifts that I have received in my entire life are when people come and talk to me and they’re saying that their lives have been changed by my articles, that I have inspired them to live a positive and better one. That they have discovered that there are amazing and astonishing places here in the Philippines that they know nothing about, that whenever they read my articles, see my photos and watch my videos, it’s as if they were also there in that particular place. And that they can also see the goodness of the heart and the depth of passion of the author to his writings. As a writer, it is the best compliment that could ever be given by someone to me coz’ it inspires me more to work harder for greater articles so that I could change more lives that needed encouragement and that I could motivate people to open their mind and heart, that there is a greater purpose for each one of us out there, just waiting to be uncovered…

            So now, on October 9, 2011, a 27 year old simple and ordinary guy has lived an Extraordinary Life… And he may not have contributed that much in trying to change the world, it may be a small personal offering, but the important thing is he started to lit the fire in other’s eyes and one day he believes that this little act will make a big difference in sheltering the values left in us humans and preserving a better world for future generations to live in. And doing something that truly gives a fulfillment in his heart, is more than enough and it is the greatest birthday wish he has ever had… Happy Birthday to ME!!!


- Happy Loner Traveller