We all hear about millennials traveling all the time and while traveling with your friends is thrilling, why doesn’t anyone discuss the importance of traveling solo? As someone who travels solo for the most part, it’s an empowering experience to go through, especially as a young woman.
Traveling alone gives you the opportunity to really connect with yourself and learn more about yourself. Honestly, you will love yourself after the experience.
Now I know it sounds daunting at first, but it doesn’t have to be a huge leap all at once (but I do highly suggest it). It could start off as small as going away for a weekend on your own to a city only a couple hours away, or you could fly across the world.
When you travel solo, you’re free to roam wherever you like. You’re not tied down by friends or other people who want to eat at a certain place or see certain things. You can literally do whatever you want.
Not feeling like going out that night? Stay in.
Want to have a picnic in a park in Europe? Do it.
It teaches you how to rely on yourself and push you outside of your comfort zone. Think you’re an introvert? Traveling alone will help you talk to locals and ask strangers to take your photo in front of that flower arch that caught your eye.
The more times you have to interact with the locals in the area, the more confident you will be when you speak to them and others once you return. You will feel like you can integrate with the new culture you’re experiencing and appreciate its authentic quality.
At some point in your trip, you will have a moment where you take a deep breath and can’t help but smile because you did it. You were able to leave the place you call home and just be with yourself for a while.
You have control over your life and you can be the source of your own happiness. So get out there and find your bliss.