Travelling opens up a whole new world. While I travel, I realize things that I thought were right can be false.At the same time, travelling goes beyond just enjoying views of different places through eyes but touch and broad my heart. While I talk to people who have been living in different cultures, eat various foods, enjoy different environments and learn different histories of each place I learn life lessons that I cannot read from books, watch from documents and hear from music. All these experiences and memories that I have during travelling enrich my life. To put it simply, travel is education for me because as my father would say “travelling is just same as reading books.”
Travel can be a political act when we change the goal of travelling. When we start thinking how we can bring good ideas that are practiced in other parts of the world to make our nation and people live better, travel becomes a political act. We should not end travelling by just keeping our astonishing memories in our heart but should be shared with other people who couldn’t experience and learn what we learnt so that travelling doesn’t just end at fulfilling fun parts but brings more serious parts of political side.
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