The narrator’s references to travel have inspired me to reflect on my own passion for traveling outside my home country. Below are some benefits to traveling that I have experienced throughout my wanderings around the globe.
1. It prevents stagnation
2. It opens one’s mind to new ways of living and doing things
3. It’s a metaphor for life; things don’t always go as planned
4. You learn to adjust yourself to external forces beyond your control
5. You are stripped of your usual environment and therefore learn more about yourself
6. You engage with and make friends with people that have a different background from your own
7. You learn a new language
8. You learn patience
9. You can finally see and appreciate with your own eyes all the places you read about in books
10. It can inspire you to become more creative
11. Its brings a sense of adventure into your life
12. You learn to appreciate different foods
13. You learn to appreciate different music
14. You are humbled by how little you are in the vastness of the world
15. You can revel in the newfound comfort of being a stranger to others
16. You allow the generosity of strangers to fill you with happiness
17. You can help clear misconceptions other cultures may have of your culture
18. You can help clear misconceptions you may have of other cultures
19. You can find beauty in a place you were not expecting to find it
and therefore
20. You can gain a new perspective on beauty
and
21. When you return home with all this fresh outlook on things, you can perhaps discover something new that had been waiting for you all along within your usual surroundings
