←→Top 5 Reasons Why We Travel

Posted Monday, May 7th, 2007 · Permalink

I’ve been hellishly busy the last few weeks. Finishing off college. Final papers, exams, parties. You know. I hope you guys accept this as an excuse for the lack of new content here. But there’s so much to do here, too! I’m still not done with the new site design. I have two interviews ready to be edited and put online. I’ve got a series of interesting links for the asides. I even have a few articles that still need to be finalized. Gah!

A few weeks ago some fellow Travesphere bloggers were doing the rounds with a post called “5 Reasons Why I Travel”. TravMonkey tagged me on his round. Ever since then I’ve been meaning to do my post. That day never came.

Today, Darren Rowse of ProBlogger launched his latest Group Writing Project, and this time the topic is “Top 5″.

My mind goes: 5 Reasons Why I Travel. Top 5. 5 Reasons Why I Travel. Top 5. Get the idea?

A quick search in my feed reader showed that besides TravMonkey, Travel-Junkie.com, Rambling Traveler, Vagabondish, and TheLostGlobe all have an entry on the matter. So this post will combine their thoughtful words with a little bit of my own ingredients. And without further ado, I present to you the Top 5 Reasons Why We Travel. That’s what I like to call it, anyway.

  1. It’s the excitement. Some people call it stepping out of their comfort zone, others call it pushing boundaries and exploring, but it all comes down to the same thing: Travel Is Exciting! You’re seeing new things, experiencing new sensations, tasting new foods. Think of it. When you travel, every single step you take you’ve never taken before. You’ve never had lunch at this restaurant. Never taken this road. Never slept in this village. And you don’t know what to expect. It’s exciting to people like us!
  2. It’s enlightening. When on the road with a backpack and a map, you learn so much about yourself. You learn about your limits. Strengths. Weaknesses. You learn about what emotional stress you can deal with, what you dare, what you don’t. But you also learn about what you can be, but haven’t been thus far. You can be more flexible. You can live without luxury. You can accomplish things you wouldn’t dare do, even at home. It’s enlightening.
  3. It’s the experiences. Besides being exciting, doing all that new stuff is also extremely educational! And this isn’t the stuff you’ll be forgetting all too soon (like the exam material I’m currently grappling with). It stays with you forever. It changes the way you think about the world. About cultures. About your own life with respect to the cultures you’ve visited. It brings things into perspective. It’s educational.
  4. It’s that very personal #4. This one is different for us all. Some attribute this one to their lust for new culinary delights. Others love how simple life is on the road, or want to learn more about world history, or capture their stolen youth. For some it is a necessity because if they didn’t travel, they would implode. I travel because I wish that others traveled more. I want to share my experiences. I want to convince others to travel and see the world. I want this because I am believe it will learn to better international understanding.
  5. It’s to live. We all want to feel free. We want to live life to the utmost. Communities are boundaries. We want to break these boundaries. Leave it for some time and live differently. It gives us a very alive feeling. Many of us feel most ‘at home’ when we’re away from it.

Filed under Timen Talks.

Responses feed49 Responses ↓

Leave a Response