This is why traveling is important to me, one of my favorite quotes.
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
-Henry Miller
I started traveling when I was 20 years old, I’m 30 now, to be honest with ya’ll, I’ll probably never stop traveling. I’ve been to so many countries and experienced so many thing. It’s kinda hard to explain why I love it so much but I just love it and it makes me happy that is why traveling is important to me. Traveling is my biggest passion and it’s what I want to do for the rest of my life. I know, not everyone wants to travel forever, but if you can, do it.
The reason why I say you should start travel while you’re young is that you get to know yourself and you mature so much that you know what you want to do for the rest of your life. When I started traveling I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life, but now I do. Not everyone is going to support you but you have to do want makes you happy!!
I just want to see the world and experience other cultures and just live and enjoy my life. There is soooo much more out there than what you think is out there. And you will never experience it if you don’t start to travel.
My inner thoughts about traveling
Traveling is simply a brutality of humanity, it is when we travel that we see things for what they truly are and not how we imagined them to be. Traveling also lets our imagination run wild without expectations, it lets us see things from a new perspective, without the alleged prejudice of the world. And while all of this seems to be an adequate reason to travel, many are still naive to the idea of traveling.
But just as many are left in the dark to wonder and wander, some are out there exploring and enjoying what the world has to offer them, for it is in that brief moment of youth that we can truly experience life, as we know it.
Now the question of many remains, “Why Should I Travel Young”? Personally, I can give you a hundred, even a thousand reasons why you should travel when you’re young but if you’re desire to see the world begins and ends with your “Wish to See the World” then I’m afraid no amount of reasoning would suffice to convince you to go after what you want.
You see, traveling as much as it is a form of recreation is also a commitment, a vocation for some, but ultimately, it is a responsibility. A responsibility you should be willing to take onto yourself. Many people say that the young are lucky to have the health and the wealth to see the world but what they do not realize is that the young are often distracted, deceived and sometimes, deluded.
7 Reasons Why Traveling is important
So if you’re someone who wish to unearth the world’s greatest places and learn life’s most valuable lessons, but are afraid to make it happen, read along, maybe I can convince you to travel while you still have the gift of life.
Reason 1
Traveling teaches you a sense of adventure – Don’t quote me on this one but based on my experience, traveling allows you to have as much as fun as you want without having to worry of what other people will say about you. You don’t have your peers or parents to warn you and judge you, so you can be young, wild and free. Life is an adventure and traveling lets you experience that.
Reason 2
Traveling teaches you to be compassionate – Other than the photos, the souvenir and the life-long memory that traveling gives you, it also edifies you of the real situation and teaches you to care for other people, sometimes not of your own kind.
Reason 3
Traveling allows you to be culturally diverse – If you think traveling is all about sight-seeing and marveling at the wonders each country has, then you’re right. But there’s also something more important that traveling teaches us, it allows us to be culturally diverse. Whenever we travel, it is important that we follow the local practices of the country/destination we are going to. As the old saying goes, “Respect begets Respect” If we learn to respect and even appreciate the culture of other nationalities then we become more aware of our own. That’s the mutual benefit we get from traveling.
Reason 4
Traveling makes you more attractive as a person – they say that the most attractive people in the world are those that have seen it. Do you agree? I do. It is because of the invaluable and immeasurable life experiences we have with our travels that make us a better person, and when you feel you’re better, you become more attractive.
Reason 5
When you travel young, you travel more – let’s face it, we’re all bound to grow old and lose our health. But while we’re young and at the peak of everything, it’s best to take advantage of it and start traveling, after all, you’re only allowed until your 40s to hike a mountain or ride the rapids of the river.
Reason 6
Traveling makes it easy to make friends – if back at your hometown you tend to cling to the same group of people bound by a circle of friendship, then maybe you should travel more often. Traveling has been proven as one of the best ways to gain friends and build bonds, after all, you are all strangers to one another at one point but because of your common interest to see the world, you are bound by it as well. And get this; wouldn’t it be nice to have friends in all parts of the world? That would be way cool, way cooler than your friends back home.
Reason 7
Traveling makes you a better storyteller – You might not get this now but when you have kids or grandchildren, you will. Those who travel young have more opportunities to experience everything there is to traveling. With the many countries that you’ve visited and you’ll be traveling to is a story waiting to be told. Traveling gives you things to share over breakfast, lunch or dinner. When you travel, you will never have a hard time thinking of a topic to talk about; not to mention you’ll keep everyone with your story.
Conclusion
Now if for some strange reason, after citing all these reasons why you should travel young and you’re still not convinced, it’s pretty obvious that you have a fear inside you that you’re just trying to hide so everyone won’t think you’re a coward who can’t face it. Is it fear of heights? Fear of the unknown? Fear of being independent? Whatever it is, know that traveling, especially alone, will help you address that fear. You just have to take the big leap of faith and make the first step to make your traveling dreams a reality. You only live once; and you’re only young for a short period of time, if you don’t travel now, when?
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