Dan Andrade

Dan Andrade was pursuing a comfortable career in human resources when life started to feel eerily mundane. Read on as Andrade, in his own words, revisits his year-long pilgrimage.

“The job paid relatively well for someone just out of university. Surrounded by good friends, entertainment, and other nice things; life was rosy, and ambled along very smoothly. And yet, something didn't sit right.

"I began to search. I looked, I thought, I prayed, and I listened. I felt I was spoiled for ordinariness- I would never be happy with a regular life…

I felt I was spoiled for ordinariness- I would never be happy with a regular life"In his book [Don’t Waste Your Life], Piper spoke of our society and how bland it has become. He wrote about passion, and the great voluntary sacrifices that were wrought during the Second World War, where people at home gave up their metal and their rubber, their meat and their milk, their gasoline and their canned goods for those serving at the front…

"And yet we stand here with a cause that is infinitely greater, and do so little. We choose instead to be passionate about sports, about entertainment, about friends, about work and careers and money, about clothes and cars…while millions perish."