Anyone who hopes to understand the real nature of human beings must travel the world and interact with different people. That is the way of the world. Much travelled people will tell you; Travelling can have some most magical results to both your social abilities and the way you see the world.
The world is a big book, full of interesting stories waiting to be read. It has many lessons in store, waiting for you to travel and learn them one by one. Here are some of the most precious lessons that can be leant from travelling.
Teaches you important facts about life
What is life? The question can have many answers but travelling helps you make your own decision. Some can claim that life’s all about having fun or going to the best restaurants. While travelling, you get to encounter some of the most mysterious things you did not even imagine could possibly exist. For example, there are menus in some great restaurants, which are not even written in the native language of that country. I mean, how more awkward can that get?
There are friends every where
They say that the world is a global village these days. I say that the world is a village of a large all related family members. That is something you learn when travelling the world. You can happen to find a friend from just about any part of the world. Just ask them a normal simple interactive question. Soon enough, you will make for yourself a life time buddy.
You hook up with most interesting people
It is tiring and gets boring soon enough, having to hang up with the same kind of people. You may be having friends who you go the bar with, play some sorts together or do shopping together. These are unavoidable circles in life. This can change for the better when you are travelling the world. You can meet with a certain farmer you never thought you could find anything interesting in. then, just like that, you find yourself engaging in some interesting debates. Just a matter of time, the both of you started hanging out together, opening your scope of life in unimaginable ways. You can even learn some very interesting facts about life, ones that you cannot find in any written text in the process.
You learn on how to make short time relationships
You may be travelling for long hours. This can be in a train or on a plain. It is very boring to go all the way without talking to anyone. Travelling helps you learn simple tactics to make quick friends. You may be a fan of chess for example. You can even find yourself finding a very challenging player next to where you are sitting on a train or a plane.
You can even wonder where it is that you have been all that time. There too many potential friends of yours out there. Some will just like ow you speak, some will just be looking for someone who laughs at their endless jokes. Whatever interests you, a friend iswaiting for you to travel the world and meet them?
Exposure to new ways
This one has something to do with the excitement associated with travelling. Imagine stocking your travel bags with items you do not even know whether you will use or not. You find yourself packing and unpacking, not knowing exactly what you will or will not need. This is the pleasure of travelling. You learn about a whole category of new things you did not even know existed. You also have to deal with life in a different way. Just imagine what you would do if you found yourself without your tooth brush, and nowhere to buy it. Well maybe use a soft branch of some kind.. I don’t know. Just get out there and you will find out.
You have all the freedom
Out there, the world is yours to rule. You get to make your own rules. For example, ‘never leave a city before at least vising five bars or restaurant’. That one is always my best! You of course have your own interests. There are the ones that will determine which places you visit or which ones you do not. In the long run, you are your own boss when travelling. The important thing is to get to try something different. Something you will always remember when you get back home. That is the fun in travelling.
Travelling has a healing effect
There maybe an issue that will not letyou sleep or stay comfortable one single moment. Travelling is the best cure for that. You get exposed to new ways of dealing with the problem.
The problem with lot of people is that they burry themselves in their own problems. This brings in a lot of stress and makes life very much bitter and unbearable. Someone out there always has a solution for your issue, no matter how pressing it feels.
You learn to take life easy
Many people make a schedule of the things they are going to try out or places they will visit while away. Well, the schedules are helpful enough but not more.
Always try something new on your travels. If you find a certain match being watched or played in a certain stadium, findyour way in. Talk to one or two fans. This helps you forget some pressing issue. You can even find that you are a fan of a certain sport, but had never gotten the chance to try it out. Life should not be taken too tightly, too much that youend up denying yourself simple pleasures. Travelling teaches this very important lesson.
Improves your social skills
You may have encountered someone struggling to learn some new language. It sometimes is hilarious enough. Now, imagine getting yourself in the same situation. It just is an opportunity that you should at least have in your life. Learn a new language and get to communicate with it to the language’s native speakers.In the end, you will find that your communication and social skills will have improved drastically.
Teaches much about past events
There is nothing sweeter than listening to a historic event. It is even betterwhen you now get to see the evidence for yourself. The world is full of famous sites where great events took place in history, where some famous navigator firstlanded, where a certain meteorite hit, where a certain battle took place; all this are breathtaking sites, ones you can actually see live on your travels.You can even carry a history book with you, one related to the site you are going to visit. Then, try to picture the live events that took place there. It is a wonderful feeling, I can assure.
Teaches you new menus and recipes
You probably know a lot about what is contained in your daily meals recipes. What most peopledon’t have the slightestidea is how exactly the meals are prepared. In one of your travels, you will encounter a hotel that goes into the details of telling you how exactly the food was prepared. You even get the chance to try out some foods you never even knew they existed.
Teaches you different things about people’s lives
People have different schedules and means of getting their daily incomes. You can never know what a family in some rural village somewhere does to get their daily meals. When travelling, you hear of some incredible stories about how people make ends meet. You learn how people deal with common disputes; that are without involving courts and expensive lawyers. It is just incredible, you have to see and experience it to see the real picture.
Gives you a chance to love and be loved back
People are waiting out there, for a chance to meet someone who they can understand and understand them in return. It is just the way life is. My friend and I were one day walking in the streets of a foreign country. He kept staring at a lady sitting next to us in a hotel. ‘Why you look me like that?’ she asked in a funny accent. ‘Because you are a very attractive lady’ my friend answered with a slight smile. As much as the lady had seemed upset with my friend’s staring, she smiled and the two started hanging up. Well, I was jealous somehow that it is him who had gotten the chance. But it taught me an incredible lesson. There is always someone out there for you!
Teaches to adapt
What will happen next in any situation is predictable but not always certain. You can encounter any situationwhen you are on one of your travels. This is the fun in it actually. You get to lean to adapt to any situation that may come up. You get to try out new ways of solving emergencies. Different people also tech you a thing or two, on how a particular problem is dealt with when it arises.
Gives a chance to learndifferent languages
You probably feel comfortable when you have people speaking your local language around you. Many places in the world can still spark the same emotion when you make an effort to lean new languages. It is not necessarily perfecting the languages altogether, but just learning to speak several words. You will even find out that a lot of people will move to appreciate your efforts of learning their language. They will end up keeping trying to give you lessons. In the end, you will actually feel like you are home once again. The world is a big place yes, but can feel like one big home for you when you learn different languages.
You learn the ways of different cultures
Different cultures do different things in different ways. For example, you may be used to seeing long white dress and shining black suits in wedding. Visits another tradition and find the couple dressed in the most colorful wedding dresses. First it will seem awkward. But once you get the details related to the origin of the costume and the rituals involved, you will find yourself getting mind blown.
Teaches you the skill of travelling itself
This is something you will never learn without trying it out. As a matter of fact, you learn the skill oftravelling by doing it as much as possible. Some people will end up frustrated and angry if somehow they ended up taking the wrong route and ended up wherethey were not intending to go. This is just a minor hiccup for the traveled guys. Travelling teaches you how to handle such situation. You get to relax and avoid some unnecessary anxiety that works by making the situation even worse than it could be.
Teaches you confidence
Travellinggives you a chance to dig out the genius in you. Down inside there, you have some of the most desirable qualities. You maybe can play very good soccer, but you do not know it. You can lead a crowd, but have never given yourself the chance to realize it. Such qualities will be realized once you are away travelling. You will find that you are capable of many things, ones that can be helpful to many people. Just give yourself sometimes and travel the world. You will see the amazing things you are capable of.
Teaches you that all people are the same
We may have different needs and interests, but deep inside we are all one. There are those things that you don’t just feel okay or comfortable with. Something like hunger for example; seeing people affected, or just listening to peoples’ views about it, you realizethat we all have common interests. All human beings would like to be happy and satisfied. We would like to have a stable government, good schools, and equipped hospitals. You realize that it is the way we move to attain our needs and interests that differ. But deep down, we are all the same!
