Why people travel

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Why people travel?

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Most people at some point in their life will
have an urge to travel. This may be a two
week holiday to somewhere warm to top
up your suntan or it could be a life
changing year, or longer, trip. Everyone
has their own reasons that they decide to
travel but most people are triggered by
something. This is often a life-changing
event or it could be a sudden change of
feeling giving you the desire to fly the nest
and set off on an adventure. After
speaking to people I have met travelling,
I have discovered, what I believe, are the
main reasons why people travel.

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To travel far enough to meet yourself
Sometimes you find yourself in the middle
of nowhere and sometimes in the middle of
yourself you find yourself. Travelling lets
you discover yourself. you find out your
capabilities. You always thought hiking was
out of your league. But when you are
compelled to try it for the first time on a trip,
you realize that you could always do it. It
was the fear that was holding you back.
When you are offered a different lifestyle,
you can find out what you are made of. The
farther you go from your home, the nearer
you come to your true self.

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To know the story behind the marks
and monuments
Remember those history classes you had in
your high school and they used to be downright
boring. You didn’t really care who built what
and where did some war take place. But when
you visit the places from your history book and
you see the historical monument standing in
front of you in all its glory, the marks all the
years have left on them speak for themselves.
That’s when you understand all the fuss about
it and appreciate its beauty.
The Colosseum in Rome, its history and the
damage that has occurred to it will leave you
mesmerized. The history of the place fills you
with the enthusiasm to know more about it and
leaves an everlasting impression on your soul.

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To become a storyteller
Travelling leaves you speechless and
then turns you into a storyteller.’ –
Ibn Battuta.
A well-traveled person can tell you stories
about things you never thought existed.
He can tell you exactly why traveling is
far better than partying every now and
then. The more experience you have, the
more stories you have to tell.
Travelling lets you have all have all the
scary and crazy experiences and a life
full of no regrets.
Of all the books in the world, the best
stories are found in the pages of a
passport.

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No trip is complete if you don’t taste
the local cuisine and pamper
your taste buds.
Food is the reason worth for some
ultimate foodies to pack their bags,
and head off to a totally different
location on the globe, to be a part
of massive food festivals
around the world.
Along with the new lifestyle, people
and culture, traveling offers one to
savor the flavors of the world.
Travel presents food for the soul.

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To break through your comfort zone
If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try
penned down Seth Godin.
If you look back at all the amazing memories of
your life, you will realize that most of them were
out of your comfort zone.
No great story starts within the confines
of your comfort zone.
Being out of your bubble, pushing your boundaries
and being vulnerable is thrilling.
You accomplish things you never
thought you could.
Travelling is dangerous, full of life-threatening
possibilities and will not always be comfortable, but
at the same time, it gives irreplaceable memories,
amazing friends from around the world and turns
you into a new person, a person full of life.
Adventure may hurt, but monotony will kill you.

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To gather a bundle of inspiration
The art galleries and museums in Paris, the
roman paintings and the bonsai ganders in
Japan, will fill you with sudden enthusiasm
to try your hand at art.
If you need some serious motivation to seek
the inner artist in you, traveling and visiting
all the amazing pieces of work
around the world can work like magic.
Apart from the art, you meet some incredible
people around the world, their stories can
make your own problems look small.
Watching them smiling despite whatever
their situation is, will make
at your own life differently.

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To slow down and relax
A wise man once said that never get so busy
making a living that you forget to make a life.
Money is worth nothing if you cannot spend it
on a little adventure. While we are deeply
involved in our hectic schedule, we forget that
time is slipping through our fingers. Escape life
for a little while because an experience is far
more valuable than money will ever be. The
feeling of being away from your workplace and
not having to worry about the never-ending
piles of files and being away from your boss for
a few days is pure bliss. The purpose of life,
after all, isn’t staying rooted
at one place, but it is about exploring all the
possibilities and reaching out to a richer life.

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To seek great people
The world is full of beautiful souls. The
ones that you meet whiling on a trip, will
remain special to you. You might make
some really amazing friends especially if
you are traveling solo. Meeting other
travelers and knowing their stories about
how they stepped out of their comfort zone
can is incredible. You can relate to the
world and connect to others.
The person you met at some cafe might
become your pen pal or you could find your
love, or you could come closer to the
friends you are traveling with, the
possibilities are boundless.

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To alter your perception
Your life problems might be huge. They might be
eating you up slowly and you can’t find a way to
figure things out. Travelling gives you a new
perspective of looking at your life. When you
meet different people, experience their culture,
know their mindsets and listen to their tales, you
will look at your own issues differently. It will make
you understand that your problems do not mean
the end of the world for you, people have it worse
but they somehow get past them. You get a
bigger picture of the world. Your thinking is altered
and things will not seem the same to you.
You will grow and you will not remain the same
person that left home a few days back.

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To explore the rich diversity
You are bound to receive few culture
shocks in your traveling course. The
way people greet each other, the food
they eat, their style, their body
language and the customs are different
all over the world. You get to
experience them and try out new things
in a new place. It makes you aware of
the degree to which people can vary
and at the same times respect those
differences.

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To celebrate life
Life is short and the world is wide. One day
you might wake up and realize that you don’t
have time to do everything that you have
always wanted to do, anymore. Once in a
while, make time to appreciate the fact that
you are alive, young, free and healthy and
head out of your usual routine and buy a
plane ticket to the place you have never
been to. Let your gypsy soul take
charge. Leave not a thing on your bucket list
undone, for future holds no guarantee. Be
brave enough to take risks, nothing can
substitute experience. Don’t worry about
money, just make it work, the experiences
that you will gain are worth more
than money will ever be.

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To learn social skills
Your social skills are bound to improve
drastically if you travel and especially solo.
A small talk with the local stranger or the
person next to you on a train, teach you
how to communicate with confidence with
those who are different from us. People
speak diverse languages over the world and
they have their have their own ways of
communicating, traveling gives you the
chance to understand others and those
ways. It teaches you, how to be expressive
and stating your ideas clearly. A sense of
self-confidence develops within you, which
is important in your professional life.

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To confront reality
You might be great at what you do for a living,
managing your work might be a piece of cake for
you and you might have the best organizational
skills. But traveling gives you some reality check
that you are yet to grow. You might have planned
your whole trip perfectly but when you miss your
train by few minutes in a country with a language
barrier, that’s when you have to take charge of the
situation and be strong. One thing is for sure that
you will emerge as a stronger person after all the
struggles you face while traveling.
Because traveling is not always comfortable and
fun, there will be events that will break you, test
you and your patience but past them,
something incredible is waiting
to be known.

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To learn new skills
You learn a great deal of things apart from
social skills. You might learn hiking,
swimming, surfing, and anything unexpected.
Opening yourself up to the various
possibilities will definitely leave you with
more knowledge and experience. Travelling
will leave a deep mark on your mind, body,
soul but you will have no regrets, for life is
not made to survive but to live.
Travel as much as you can and speak
English, kiss French, dress Italian, spend
Arab and party Caribbean. Time will pass
away, you can either spend it creating the life
you want or you can live the life you never
wanted. The choice is yours.

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Wanderlust
Wanderlust is a strange word but what
does it mean? Descended from the
German word ‘Wandern’ meaning to walk
and ‘Lust’ which is described as
‘A very strong or irresistible impulse’. In
short it means that you travel because
you have the urge to. You may not have
one particular factor that made you book
a flight. All you know is that you want to
travel and you want to travel NOW!

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and
narrow-mindedness, and many of our
people need it sorely on these accounts.
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men
and things cannot be acquired by
vegetating in one little corner of the earth
all one’s lifetime
Mark Twain
People travel for pleasure and need.
People have to travel for work, to move
location,
to study or attend family. People like to travel
for many kinds of pleasure. They like to see
beautiful places, explore cultures and cuisines.
Some like to try activities in different locations
or visit family and friends.