It is rightly said that we travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.
Just imagine for a moment, your bags are packed, your flight tickets are booked and you are about to travel to your favourite destination. Weren’t you amazed and excited by just reading that? Yep, that’s what travelling is all about. To make your heart skip a beat because of the adventure that awaits at the next step. Travelling can fill your yearning for wanderlust, it can help fill the unnamed void and mends the chink in your armour.
To add a little more insight to this thought, below are the 10 best reasons how travelling the world can change your life.
1. Helps you live in the moment
One of the best things that travelling can help you achieve is the ability to learn new things on the go. When you are heading out on your journey, you will learn how to plan your day, grasp about new cultures, and the etiquette of different countries. Since you will be engaging all of your five senses vehemently, you will learn to absorb every little detail and take pleasure in the simplest of things.
2. Experience > Materialism
When you are gasping over the Taj Mahal or surfing on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro, you will learn that the experiences will matter more than buying any type of merchandise. Travelling becomes a way of life since you will understand the importance of experience rather than buying any luxurious items. Travelling helps you immerse yourself in the moments and help you truly be yourself.
3. Enhances your point of view
If you are seeking to change the way you look at life, try putting yourself in the shoes of others. It not only makes you feel thankful about the way your life is but you will also empathise with other countries and cultures. Travelling helps you indulge in other customs, languages, traditions and folklore.
4. Teaches you to deal with things
If one thing travelling gives you in disguise is cancelled flights, lost luggage, confusion with the locations or a day filled with unexpected challenges. Nope, these are not the disadvantages of travelling but moments that will help you learn how to deal with things. It will teach you how to be calm during chaotic days and trust us, this is one of the best skills that travelling teaches you.
5. Helps you gravitate towards being independent
When you are travelling alone, this is the right time and the opportunity to discover your true self. Travelling alone teaches you to be comfortable being alone and taking care of your own self. And when you return back to the hustle and bustle of life, you will find yourself being at an ease of being independent rather than inclining on others for help.
6. Helps you learn something new
One of the best things that travelling can help you achieve is the ability to learn new things on the go. When you are heading out on your journey, you will learn how to plan your day, grasp about new cultures, and the etiquette of different countries. Since you will be engaging all of your five senses vehemently, you will learn to absorb every little detail and take pleasure in the simplest of things.
7. Unleashing your inner child
As we grow older, we shed out our younger selves, so much so that we forget to sometimes be silly, happy and jovial like a kid. When you travel, this is your chance to find your true inner child. Let go of the boundaries, hike that mountain, sail that sea or go on crazy deep-sea diving. Travelling is all about you.
8. Helps you connect with people
The pandemic filled with lockdowns and quarantines was so horrendous that we lost connecting with new people. But now since everything is returning to normal, this is your chance to revive connections and travelling is the best way to meet new people and make memories that last for a lifetime.
9. Helps you recharge yourself
In a life filled with hustling up for your dreams, running in the rat race of 9 to 5, it is also important to take care of your mental health. If you feel that you have burnt out, travelling is one of the best ways to take a break and put your life into perspective. Travelling will help you refocus and restructure your life so that you can pounce back into the real world with much more conviction and fervour. Until then, soak your legs in the sea, bask in the sun and enjoy the fresh air.
10. Boosts your imagination
When you are heading out on travel getaways, you can expand your mind’s limitations and be inspired by the simplest of things. A lot of famous writers have struck a bull's eye in their work because they were inspired by travel, the place and its culture.
