How many times have you found yourself dishing for reasons to justify your need to travel, take a break, or go on a vacation? At the risk of sounding presumptuous, a lot of us today perceive travel to be reserved for “someday”. Many suffer from the “someday” disease when it comes to planning an adventurous expedition to the one destination that they’ve always dreamed of visiting. And the reasons range from it being too expensive, not wanting to jeopardize with the number of work leaves remaining; to it involving you to “give” a lot of time in planning the logistics. Although, these reasons cannot be entirely dismissed, a slight change in your perception will make it easy to conquer the travel-procrastinating thoughts and also reveal that rather than you giving, how much travel gives you, educates you, and offers life’s lessons through experiences; thus opening many avenues to bring in positive changes in you. Do you wish to change your perception about travel? Then read along to find out what’s travel really got in store for you:

Travel is Your Best Teacher

It doesn’t matter how far or how near your travel destination lies, knowingly or unknowingly, you are bound to learn something new, which adds a subtle yet an embellishing shade to your personality and your outlook towards life. It can be learning a new language; mastering various tools of technology to stay connected, art of packing just right, traveling with an infant, traveling on a budget; breathing life into your adventurous spirit by allowing it to experience an adrenaline rush every once in a while, developing a liking and an adaptability for new cuisines, learning how to eat with chopsticks, learning how to fix a flat tire on a road trip….and there is no limit to the amount of variegation that traveling can add to your existing identity, making it kaleidoscopic and full of life.

The Deep & Permanent Inner Changes Etched by Travel

The utterly fascinating changes that travel infuses within you are often deep and permanent. As rightly said by Miriam Beard “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” When you travel to fulfill your curiosity about the world; when you travel to not run away from the reality, you can never look at life the same way again. You learn to appreciate the journey as much as the destination, you have a renewed sense of gratitude for the things that you possess and your day-to-day comforts, you learn to find beauty in the most ordinary surroundings, you come across inspiring people along your journey who motivate you to self-examine and inculcate values that will change your life forever, you become aware of your environmental footprint, you harbor a desire to travel for a cause, and develop an overwhelming urge to not settle for a conventional life.

Travel teaches you to calculate richness not in terms of materialistic things, but by your travel experiences, snapshots of your journeys, the depth of your knowledge about diverse cultures, and the breadth of your social network across the globe.

Travel is Your Conduit to the World

There is no better and a more effective medium than travel to connect with the world and develop a level of social awareness which cannot be achieved otherwise. Travel gives you an opportunity to step outside your comfort zone and confront something new and out-of-ordinary. It exposes you to global issues and reveals how our perceptions about a new country and its culture are based only on the filtered information that is communicated to us through media.

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