Travelling has that wonderful thing that ignites yourself, activating your senses, staying more aware while being in new places or unfamiliar scenarios. Without even knowing you are learning by experience. Having a real experience is very different than reading or styuding about it: your are enjoying the time and having fun while broadening and expanding your mind. Your perspective of the world broadens acquiring and integrating new ways of seeing it.
The first thing you do when travelling is that you are leaving behind your familiar and comfort zone. Either you travel for business or leisure, you are immersing into the unknown, and because it is precisely unknown, you face challenging situations, meanwhile confronting your preconceived notions to reality and that contrast can lead to several emotions. Moreover, by stepping into unfamiliar territories, you not only gain new knowledge but also practice adaptability, resilience and a deep appreciation of the wide range of human life.
Meanwhile, you are exposing to new or diverse cultures, traditions, religions, way of seeing, thinking and living life. Such experiences will undoubtedly broaden you perspectives and understanding of the world. Travelling is a real life experience, being in direct contact with locals which may be different way of living form back home.
“Travelling makes you humble. You see the small place you occupy in the world”.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Unlike books, schooling or now even media, travelling engages your senses – interacting with people who have different stories from your own, tasting and smelling traditional food from other places, walking through ancient streets, experiencing local types of art, amongst others. Learning with all your senses sparks curiosity, empower empathy and reinforces bonds with locals. No classroom teachings can transmit such experiences and emotions: living the actual experience ignite a much deeper dimension when broadening perspectives of the world.
The result of travelling or meeting and learning from other cultures is transformative: it reduces the size of “the borders” between cultures, shifts your perspective and brings humanity closer, having a much deeper understanding of the connections amongst different cultures. Both, the shared values while the uniqueness of amongst traditions are exposed so that the shared values strengthens bonds while their uniqueness makes it attractive to others. Indeed, travelling not only enriches your life and mind but also expand your soul becoming more open, humble, integrating broader perspective of the world.
Am I aware of the power and influence that travelling has on my understanding of the world?
Where do I put my attention when travelling: on relaxing, enjoying, learning?
Am I open enough to absorb new concepts from different cultures when travelling?
May you become aware that travelling has powerful and transformative ways of teaching.
Youtomic.
