When I say I want to travel, I want to travel because the world is so big and life is so short. Out of the billions of people on this earth, I am merely one person who wants to see it all. There are people out there who get to visit a new place every day and there are people out there who probably never leave the place where they first came to this earth. I want to travel because I feel it's important to know what else is out there.
Traveling isn't just about getting to gloat to your friends about all the different places you've been. It's about the experiences that you get to keep and the new memories that you get to make after having become acquainted with these new places. What I used to never realize is that there is so much more to this world than just staying in one place. There are so many new things I've never done or seen and so many new people that I've never met or probably will never have a chance to talk to again.
Nevertheless, I want to take advantage of as many opportunities I can and try and get to have those events and try to get to talk to those people. What's even the point of life if here are no new ideas? Why is the earth so big if we weren't meant to travel and weren't meant to get to live among various cultures. I'm a strong believer in thinking that you can't just live staying in one place, you have to expand and adapt to all the different things in the world.
The sad thing about traveling though is that they're all these different boundaries and limitations put on where we can go. Why would you want to limit someone, who wants to immerse themselves in so many different aspects of others lives, from having that opportunity?
The problem nowadays is so many people have really lost that raw desire to experience and be with people that they probably never will be with again. Actually, I think people are just content with being fed the history of a place from their textbook or TV show and that's enough for them. Personally, I thrive on the reality of it that is the daunting path of future that lies ahead. "For there are far better things ahead than any you leave behind".- C.S. Lewis.
As a person, I believe the most important thing you can do is go back to your roots and rebuild from there. Learn, not only who your parents were, but learn what your great-great-grandparents stood for. Our lives are much more beautiful when filled with the knowledge of the dust from which we derived ourselves. I don't think these stationary people want to belong somewhere else; I think they like what they know. Humans are really lost with their closed minds. With that in mind, they have really become shut off and the aspects of traveling are lost.
I rely on others to do my growing and I find that talking to most people really helps me form new perspectives on the world. Traveling also gives you different ideas of how to live and this is just so invigorating. You can base the way you want to live on anything or you can base it on a whole mixture of a bunch of different cultures. You can even base it on just your own. It doesn't matter as long as you fill yourself with knowledge and the importance of being someone else; being someone more than what society says you can be.
The travel that I want is not the stereotypical "I went to Cancun over my spring break" type of travel. I want to backpack across Europe and speak a language that I wasn't born with. I want to meet people that would never in a million years visit my country because they've been taught that it's wrong and that it's not the proper way to live. I want to explain to myself why culture is the way it is and why it's so divided. Why do different countries have different reasons for the things they do? Like which ones are based on religion and which ones are based on a scummy dictator. Why is our democracy such a hypocritical example of what the founding fathers did not want us to become. More so than just saying that I want to travel I want to get something out of my life and I feel that with traveling that's the way I'm going to find meaning from.
By traveling, you figure out who you are. Travel is probably the best thing on this earth because sometimes I feel that where I am and what I'm doing is not enough and that scares me, but I feel like I can still fill that void by learning how to live how to live completeness in my own eyes without being told how to live. The living isn't just living anymore, it's a skewed perception of what we need and what we think we need. What I want from travel is to spread my life from here to there and in doing so, building my own ideas from life itself. Life is fleeting.
