New experiences. New sights. A feeling, an emotion never experienced before. Something you felt you could never ever do, but you build up the courage and do it anyway; and it gifts you with an ever lasting memory. The beginning of the day symbolizes the beginning of a fresh page in your book of life.
When we often get lost in our own thoughts, we wonder what we live for. What is that we want to do before we leave the world for a better place. Whenever I’ve found myself asking this question, my conscience always whispered into my ears : “Explore!”. Like many people, I have a love for travelling, and I believe it is one of strongest desires to travel around the world and visit all kinds of places on our planet.
To lead a vagabond life; to wake up in a different city or maybe even a different country everyday. Meet new people, make friends, learn their language, live their culture. The joys of travelling are not restricted to enjoying the sights and scenes, but it helps you grow as a person. It provides you with multiple perspectives. I truly believe a person matures when he/she learns to adapt by cultivating a willingness to gather perspectives. Everything we do, Everything we look at, we decipher it the way we taught ourselves to. Perspective is very well in a symbiotic relationship with the qualities of empathy, and a positive mindset to appreciate every thing and scenario in our daily lives.
Travelling by yourself, through experience I would say is an experience that would toughen you, makes you wiser and adamant; every point you look eye to eye with a situation you never thought you would have to handle all by yourself. Nobody around you to help you out of the sticky situation but yourself. You are at the wheel, you decide where you make the turns, you decide when you need to stop. The power of decision rests only in your hands and how responsibly you make the decisions and what you learn from the decisions that you made makes you who you are.
Yet this dream of ours is hindered by the fact that most of have an embargo on freedom in our lives. We are bound by the restrictions of our duties. Expectations, financial security, family everything in our life seems to have a higher priority in our lives. Sadly enough, many people who would love to have explored the whole world lives to only struggle every day of their lives to ensure that they have fulfilled their duties; because they valued their duties above self satisfaction.
We could struggle our entire lives yet end it with a regret; of not investing enough time on ourselves. Not spending enough time on the road exploring. As important our duties are, sometimes we need to find the motivation withing ourselves to say : “Stop, that’s enough. I need some time for myself”.
Exploration helps you build the best version of yourself, someone who is wiser, experienced and mature. A person who could make life a whole lot better for himself and the people around him. So now is the time!
Yes you could be surrounded with people who tell you no, your responsibilities. Grab a pen and make a list! There are places we need to visit for there are night skies we haven’t yet seen, waters we haven’t sailed on, mountains we haven’t climbed, cultures we haven’t experienced.
Like someone said
“It’s better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times” .
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