Now is the Best Time to Travel
Everyone want to travel but most people don’t do it. There are many reasons for this. Fear keeps most people from traveling. When I first traveled in 2006, people always wanted to do what I was doing. For some people it is easy to just jump ship and go travel. Some have it in them all along and just need a gentle push. For me, all it took was a trip to Thailand and jealousy before I quit my job and telling my friends I was leaving to travel. For others it is a lot harder to leave. They are more tied to their job, more afraid, more uncertain. They may want to go but, instead the nudge I needed, they need a full on shove to get them to travel.
If you are looking for reasons, here are many good reasons to go around the world:
The economy is bad. With the world economy in a tailspin, there is a lot of economic uncertainty in the world. Will you be fired or are you going to stay? What about your investments? Stop worrying. Avoid it all. Go travel. If you quit your job, sell your stuff and travel, you won’t have to worry how the economy does. Let others worry and go have fun. Come back to the workforce when things get better.
You make a lot of friends. Even if you travel alone, you will never be alone. There are millions of people traveling the world everyday and you will bump into quiet a few of them. Traveling will allow you to make friends from around the world. Something you can’t do by sitting at home.
It’s better than working. Nobody likes to work- that is why we call it work and not fun. Sitting behind a desk under fluorescent lights all day takes the fun out of life. Nobody wants to spend their existence doing that. Take a break from that and go out and recharge your batteries.
Its not as expensive as you think. People think that traveling is expensive but its not at all. You can travel quite cheaply by using low cost airlines, staying in guesthouses, or with locals who offer you their home, and by taking local transportation.
You learn about other cultures. The world is a big place and globalization has made it much more complex and interconnected. You’ll never begin to understand all the other players in the world or why people do what they do by sitting at home. Traveling will teach you about other cultures and people and make them more than just a face on the news.
Because, like Yoda said, do or do not. Why spend your life thinking about what might be when you can just do it. Its not that hard to travel you just have to have the will to do it. Don’t live life with regrets- get up and get going. NO ONE ever regrets a trip like this. NO ONE.
Traveling is a life changing experience. There’s no reason not to go. As you can see, there are plenty of reasons why you should go. All you have to do is get up and go. There’s no secret. Just move. You live once.