There’s a quote out there that says “We travel because we need to because distance and difference are the secret tonic to creativity. When we get home, home is still the same, but something in our minds has changed, and that changes everything.”
I am a firm believer in that taking a plane 4,882 miles away from home changes something inside of you. It shifts something in your core and after that nothing is the same anymore.
Traveling is deemed necessary for the human experience.
Traveling changes your perspective.
Taking a step away from a problem and seeing the big picture is exactly what traveling does to a person. It forces you to look at all the different perspectives and outcomes when you’re not looking at anything face to face anymore. You’re surrounded by different people and a different culture that you have to be open to it all to enjoy it. Once you open yourself up the experience, you open yourself up to possibility.
Traveling makes you fearless.
I don’t care who you are, there is nothing more frightening to a person than to stand in the midst of something and not have any control of what is happening. People like to plan things to death and they spend more time planning their lives instead of actually living them. Traveling makes you embrace the unexpected. If the airport loses your luggage, all you can do is cry for a bit but then get over it and make the best out of it. If you get separated from your group you can’t freak, all you can do is breathe and pick up a map and hope for the best. Traveling makes you live life on the edge and try things you would never even imagine.
Traveling gives you hope.
It's one thing to have a box full of cuttings of maps and cities you want to go to before you die. However, it is something completely different to actually be in Venice and take a gondola ride. Traveling makes you believe that tomorrow will be better. Traveling enforces the idea that there is more to life than Small Town, USA, it enforces it and makes you believe and want more.
Like Brad Paisley once sang “I can’t see this world unless I go outside my southern comfort zone.” So whatever your comfort zone maybe, take a step out of it and look around. I promise it’ll change your life.
