I’ve always been a fan of traveling. I’ve not come across many people who hate it, but I have come across people who have told me, “you know, I just don’t see the point in traveling because I’m happy where I’m at.”
Traveling isn’t just about being happy
I’ve never understood that feeling, and I recognize their ability to say and feel that way, but I fervently disagree. Traveling isn’t just about being happy, but it’s about expanding what you know about the world and pushing your comfort zone even further.
It’s not always a significant confidence boost, but I really think people grow a lot when they are forced to butcher some Chinese and use hand signals and translation apps to try and communicate with their landlord or the street vendor.
It makes you see the world in a whole different way when the language on the signs is entirely unlike anything you have ever seen and, well, for lack of a better word, foreign.
People need to see what it is like on the other side of the world and see for themselves what daily life is like because your hometown is not all there is. You need to grab the breakfast that people your age eat before they head to work in a different city.
Go and learn something new
Go and learn something new or see a place that you have only seen pictures of. Hike to the top of a mountain and look down on a city you have only spent a day in. Go to KTV with friends and stay there for hours singing in a language you barely understand, but with something everyone knows well: cheap beer.
The truth is, you won’t get any of that out there in your hometown. Instead, it will be the same as when you graduated high school and the same as it was when you returned home for the holiday break. So to truly experience life, you have to do something you have never done before.
After all, that’s what I did.
Traveling opened up my entire framework of how I see the world. Before, I only thought of the world in terms of where I had been, what I had experienced, and how I communicated with people.
It wasn’t until I was the foreigner in the night market trying to barter for stinky tofu that I really began to see that life is really unique. Now, my world is more diverse than you may ever know if you don’t leave the confines of your sleepy little town.
Everyone needs to travel outside their home country not for the sake of looking like a fool but to experience life. You need to know what it is like on the other side of the world, how they live and see that what you thought about your own life is just one small fraction of the truth.
You need to travel!
You need to travel to see that all those little worries you have every day are minuscule compared to the potential opportunities you could have across the globe. With travel, your entire world opens up, and your perspective changes. Once you leave your hometown, you’ll never return quite the same person as you were before, and that makes all the difference.
Written by Marie Soukup, experienced writer, editor, author, and freelancer. You can find me at marieselizabeth.com and fiverr.com/mariesoukup.
Hey guys. Thanks for visiting my new blog. Some of you might know, that this is going to be my secondary blog. A kind of magazine mostly written by guest writers.
This is the first post written by a guest writer. Let me know how you feel about her post. I would love to work with her again, if you liked her post.
- Antonym
If what you were aiming for was a friendly sweet flowing writer then you've got it here @antonym. But to be honest, from this write-up the writer doesn't seem to have a lot of info and insight to offer, but still a friendly sweet flowing writer. You get what I mean?
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah. I think I know what you mean. It could use a bit more substance. But many writers on POB lack substance. I'm not going to rule her out for that. The post performed well and it was the first try. There's always a chance for development.
Thanks for this wonderful word's of knowledge.
It's a nice well written article. I think you will find a lot of such authors who will share with you a great content. Nice concept to hire freelancers. Especially if the content is all original.
Thanks. Yeah I'm excited to see how it goes. Definitely happy with this one. But it's all unknown territory. :)
It's ok, I think that worth trying. I'm doing something similar with @dcooperation. But the content is sent from the existing people here. I'm willing now to collaborate with tribes as well. I think I may build something huge if I'll find more business people who build it with me. Recently I'm even thinking about creating a movie about hive first and then about each tribe appart. That will be great to see. The senario will be as well written by all those who are active here. I don't know as well how it goes, but I will try to make it come true. So, anything is possible. ☺
Looks like a great idea. I wouldn't have the energy to manage cooperations like that. With freelancers, it's completely up to me, whenever I take the next step. I like the freedom.
I agree with this post, and I intend do travel soon, I hope next year, or in 2023... let's see what happens...
I strongly agree with this writer, stepping out of the chores of your country is one thing a man should do before seeing death. Its helps to be exposed, more knowledgeable I mean we see life differently stepping out of our homeland. I have had the privilege once, to Asia and the experience was life changing. Of course I intend to travel more. The target is a least of ten countries from different continent before I hit 70 by God's grace. Traveling the world is truly beautiful.
I like her work, it has many truths in it.
Traveling isn't just for the fun of it, it helps expand how we see the world, it provides new knowledge - we get to see things we haven't seen before and the rest.
I'd really love to leave my country someday and just travel around.
I wish to travel out of my country
Hi thehoot, so great to see a fellow traveler joining Hive! We've been around for over 3 years, building a community of travelers on Hive. I see that you are posting from hiveblog which is awesome, but the beauty of the Hive blockchain is that there are several websites available to use Hive!
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We noticed you shared your first post here on Hive - congratulations and welcome! It would also be awesome if you could do an introduction post, so our community can get to know you better. For an example of what an intro post is like, you can check out this one by my friend & curation team member - Keeping Up With the Buzz – My Introduction to the Hive Community.
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This is a great article with some nice insights into travelling.