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Travel To Find A Better Version Of Yourself

not to escape life, but for life not to escape you

By Shubham KumarPublished 3 years ago 4 min read
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Travel To Find A Better Version Of Yourself
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When I was a child, I used to think that why people like to travel the world? What kind of happiness do they get after visiting a tourist place? Why they spend money to have a glimpse of antique pieces, while they can buy some other things with that money, and they are wasting bucks just to see it. How they talk with a person whom they never met even don't know him.

I also used to wonder how could a person visit a place which is not known to him, where he doesn't know anyone, even doesn't have a solid idea about that place. What he only has is some information from people who had visited or heard from someone else.

Is it the same thing you have thought? And it's because you did not enjoy travelling. You might hesitate when it comes to talking with an unknown person. When you'll start travelling, it would change your point of view about travellers. You would like to visit a random place, spending time with nature in the lap of the mountains, meeting new people and understanding different cultures.

When you tour a new place, you get into a whole new surrounding, which has a lot of things to discover. You may find many things that are unique and alien to you, but they attract towards themselves.

Before going on a trip, you create a list of things like hotels to stay, places to visit, kinds of stuff required during the tour. For doing all these, you search the web an uncountable number of times. You choose one thing but also reject it the very next moment by finding a few critical reviews or a flaw in it. This process keeps going on until you finalise a particular thing.

Regardless of doing too much planning, you face some irregular problems or come across any undesired obstacles, which can't be pre-planned or avoided. At that moment, you think and decide for yourself because you only are present there to deal with that problem. And coming over this kind of situations strengthens you and makes you ready to fight unpredictable problems of your upcoming life.

Travel to explore the world

Travelling is an art. A person goes to a random place, sees antique objects, eats delicious foods, and comes back home. You can't call it travelling.

Travelling means to explore the place, when you go somewhere, you need to see the beauty and uniqueness of that place, understand the culture and tradition of people there, and communicate with them to know their lifestyle and know-how differently they think about life and what's their reason.

Being at a tourist place, try to find out the history of that place, what is this famous for. At first instance, you would get many answers, some of which may seem to be logical, some are not. But whatever is the reason, you would get some idea about the people of old-time and ancient culture. It is interesting to learn how different the world used to be.

Finding yourself, not that you are in daily life

When you go on a tour, explore yourself along with the world. You don't need to take any stress about the job during the trip, stay relaxed. No one knows you here, so you do whatever you want without thinking what your relative will say or what your friend will say.

Climb on the hills and shout your name loudly and hear the sound echoing. Go below the waterfall and feel the very touch of each drop of water. Go to the local market and eat street foods. Do whatever you want to.

After coming back from the trip, ask yourself a few questions, like have you explored yourself, are you feeling something change in yourself?

I don't know the answer to the first question, this is up to you, but I have an idea about the answer to the second question if this was your first trip in which you tried to explore yourself then, of course, you must have found some change in yourself, your thought process, your point of view about the world and the life. If things went on the right track, then you might have discovered a better version of yourself that you have not thought of before going on the trip.

You are not exactly the person whom you find yourself in everyday life, you also have a distinct personality hidden inside, and that personality is not coming out because you don't bring it out just owing to your responsibilities, daily life problems and work pressure.

Go somewhere at a distant place, to discover and meet yourself, and find what you're. Bring that hidden personality outside and be the real you're.

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