Why do we love to travel?
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” — Jack Kerouac
I know, I know, you all are thinking that it should not be a question even, why do we love to travel?
I mean how can you hate traveling to the unknown places of this beautiful and adventurous world. This is absolute that nobody in this world hates traveling and nobody wants to just stick in that office cubicle for hours and hours. But, but, but, not everyone can afford traveling frequently or even monthly or even quarterly. But you can take some time out of your busy boring schedule to make way for that short and fun holiday with family, friends or colleagues.
Let’s dig down to this and find out why do we love to travel more than anything else:
1. Traveling is not dull at all
“It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” — Unknown
Imagine yourself packing your holiday t-shirts, pants, pajamas, cameras, power banks, cables, snacks for munching, lots of other essential stuff and pouring all that in your colorful suitcase(s). Not tedious, right!
Then sitting in the waiting area of that airport, train platform or any other transportation medium, feeling thrilled and exhilarated at the same time for reaching the holiday destination even before leaving the source city. Not at all dull moment, right!
And then reaching to the much-awaited destination spot, waiting for opening your mind and body completely to serve for enlightenment and pure satisfaction. Isn’t boring to anyone !!!
2. Traveling opens up all new dimension
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel — not a destination.” — Roy M. Goodman
It is quite evident that we all have one or many dimensions to our lives and we all use it to our advantage time and again when we need to display our skills.
But while traveling we tend to get mature mentally and physically as soon as we enter into that hotspot destination and starts to interact with other people, things, spots, and experiences. One of the most fundamental reasons for that can be, we don’t have any other option while traveling to refuse, reject or ignore than accept the reality and deal with the current scenario and do anything which suits better at that particular point of time. It leads us to innovate new ways to do that same thing which we might not do when we are in the comfort of our homes and offices.
It opens up all new dimension to our mind which help us to forget every stress and load of our routine life that we have and makes us live into the moment and take full control of our happiness.
3. Traveling helps you refresh yourself
“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer”- Unknown
We all know that refreshing ourselves once in a while is a must. And what better refreshment than traveling to some unknown city, state or country. There are a hell lot of choices to decide where you should travel or visit for your next holiday trip from this giant, incredible, and exciting world.
Refreshments like these make you forget all the baggage that you have in your city and helps you roam around the streets, parks, beaches, and inspires you to climb that mountain which you always dream of.
There are many more reasons for answering why do we love to travel but it’s better to give this article a beautiful ending so that you can start packing for your next adventure trip and remember that :
“To Travel is to Live” — Hans Christian Andersen
Kudos to the traveler in us !!!
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