There will come a point in your life when you may fall completely out of love with the place you call home, or you may long for somewhere new to explore; embrace this moment. The world was created for you to do just that: explore it. When earth was created, it was never an intention for you to stay in one place for your entire life. You weren't blessed with years to live your days in the same place doing the same old thing. No. You were given years of wandering, years of growing and years of inspiration. Take advantage of the wonderful creations just on the other side of the state line. Go see the way the waves roll in to kiss your toes on the sandy shore, look down at an ant like town from the highest mountain top, find the whitest of snow and the tallest of trees. Go out and ride an elephant, observe a penguin and pet a lion. The Lord did not create a beautiful earth with beautiful creatures without the intention of wanting you, His beloved creation, to see it all.
The idea of travel is wonderful, but the reality of it may not be. Plane tickets are expensive, hotels are expensive, gas is expensive, and a whole trip is expensive. But, if you really want to travel, you can make it work, you can travel. Pack up a backpack, pitch a tent and hike your way across the country. It is humanly possible to camp all the way from Texas to Canada, you just have to be determined to do so. Don't spend all of your time in an office, instead use that money you work so hard for to go somewhere. Wake up in the middle of the night to find the cheapest flights and book that trip you have always wanted, even if you only start out by buying a one way ticket. Seeing a new town for the first time is much more exciting than buying a new pair of shoes that you won't even be able to wear in the next few months.
The point of life is to actually live it. You can't spend your days cooped up in an office, staring out a window, wondering what life is like somewhere else. There may be animals you have never seen, coffee that tastes like it came from Heaven and people who are meant to be your soulmates in other cities, but you will never know until you go there. Stop spending your time surfing the web and dreaming about your weekend get a way. Pack a bag and just go. There is never going to be a perfect time to take a vacation and you are never going to think that you truly have enough money for the vacation of your dreams, so you may as well pack up and go. It's now or never.
But a fair warning: once you catch the travel bug, there is no cure.
