Travelling

Travelling. To me, there is no better way to see the world, learn and grow as a person then to travel. And with this I don’t mean visit places for 5 days, see the touristic hotspots and that’s it. No, with travelling I mean going into the wilderness. Walking into remote villages and try to communicate with people whose culture and language are foreign for you. With travelling I mean having moments of pure joy and enthusiasm as well as having moments of desperation and troubles.

Travelling to me is a great way to grow personally. From all the blessings and obstacles during your journeys you learn a great lot. From the difficult moments you learn to improvise so much more then you would if you’d never leave home. You learn about other people, you learn to greatly respect all cultures of the earth, and Mother Nature herself

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A few quotes about travelling that I truly love because they seem so true to me are the following:

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” 

 “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.”

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”

But… however much I love travelling, it’s something that I want for myself. And there is something, this force that always drives me further, that is even more important than my love for travelling; it’s my desire to help others. I’m ambitious. I want too much, I’m idealistic. So at the moment I can’t see a way how to combine both things in such way that I can both make myself happy and others. I wouldn’t find it fair if I were to have all the fun and benefits from my personal growth on my journeys, whilst others continue to suffer.

What I do know, is that I need both to be happy. I want to help others so that they can grow, become happy, live beautiful, fulfilling, peaceful lives. And I need to travel and see this great, beautiful, extraordinary world.

I already go on small journeys in the region where I live, and although it’s nothing big, it does give me more insight about life, and gives me a feeling of self-worth I’ve never felt before. I grow, every time I step onto the road with unknown country to be discovered. And I do try to help others. But how much do I wish that there were a way to combine both, make my living out of it.

All I can hope for is a strike of insight that I know someday will come, whether it will be on a 2000 m high mountain, on my kayak on the sea, or anywhere else on my journeys.