Do you love to travel?
I have been traveling for decades, over the years I have designed my life around my love of travel. Travel isn’t for everyone but I do recommend that everyone travel some in their life. That said I will give you the reasons I travel and why everyone should travel to some degree. I don’
I suppose the first reason I travel is to live. Everyone has gotten too tied up in their lives of working forty plus hours a week. People have come down to work all week, take care of kids and family, shop, and watch television. Honestly, is that anyway to really live? Shouldn’t life be a bit more exciting and adventurous? It is this kind of life is why people end up divorced and unhappy, they forget how to live. They don’t remember what it is like to sit in a coffee shop and just talk with people while you relax. They don’t remember what it is like to explore a new place or try new things. Do you ever relax? Do you know how?
The second reason are the people. Where ever you live there are good and bad people. Some become great friends and some you will never see eye to eye with. One thing I have found about traveling is when you are in a new city, a new country people will often be very helpful. Some do it so they can practice their English. Some do it because they enjoy talking to people from other countries. Some do it because in that country and society being friendly is just part of the way they live. They can be a great help, teach you a lot about the country and tell you the places most tourist never find. I have enjoyed so many times sitting in a local pub just being lead to the hideaway places for food and fun only the locals know about and never tell the tourists.
I think the third reason I travel is that life is short. Life is really short, what you do with yours will depend on a lot of how you were raised but also what you dream of a great life has been over the years. To me, working forty plus hours a week and spending my time off waiting to go back to work isn’t living. I feel like I am just waiting around to die. I don’t live to work, I work to live. Some people think only the rich can work to live. The real truth is everyone can work to live, you just have to decide which is more important, repairing your home and all the material things you buy day after day, week after week, and year after year. All of which are losing value each day, slowly failing apart, and you can’t take with you when you die anyway or experiencing the world and what the world really is like instead of just what you hear on television. Personally, I choose the world and the great things in our history.
Don’t wait around to die anymore, get off your butt and go travel!!!!
Travel is one of life’s pleasures, enjoy it! Do you Travel? What are you missing if you don’t?
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