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Why you should travel young?

Around Gangtok, Sikkim, India
The Road Less Traveled "It's always about the journey" 
I just arrived back from the Maha Kumbh, Allahabad, and I feel overwhelmed; Not at the mysterious religious beliefs that a place like Kumbh and Sangam would hold; after all, we'd have to live another 144 years to experience another, but at the very fact that I have started to feel more comfortable living out of my suitcase, on the road, than with a closet, and the fact that that happens only once in 144 years.

So why should we Travel at all..
I am sure you'll find your own reasons, as soon as you take that first step out of your city. For me, it has always been for the love of the experience. Loose term, yes, but you'll get it once you travel. And for the uninitiated, Experience can be about that clear blue green water, the golden sand, the rocky coastline, the twinkling starry sky, the fresh soft snowy morning, the blazing hot sun.
But there are finer tastes to travelling than the landscape and the weather. And you'll truly start enjoying travelling when such things make you swoon. Could be the culture, the people that you meet along and make acquaintances of, the local food that you taste, the local lifestyle that you get addicted to from sports/music/work to the morning walks/breakfast quirks, or could be that event, historic or otherwise, that you were just there to witness, be it your first live football match, or your umpteenth music concert albeit in a different setting, or your first ever Wine and Cheese tasting in the very land, or say the final address of the Pope stepping down (which a friend just happened to witness), or well the Maha Kumbh with the longest congregation of religious pilgrims or people otherwise and where a city just spawns out of nothing in a matter of weeks. Oh, the Possibilities alone !!

and Young...
Surely.
Borrowing a few lines from another piece of writing, which I sincerely feel is a must read to the extent that you should give what I wrote a miss if you had to make that call:

"“We are what we repeatedly do,” Aristotle once said. While I don’t want to sound all gloom-and-doom, and I believe your life can turn around at any moment, there is an important lesson here: life is a result of intentional habits. So I decided to do the things that were most important to me first, not last." - Jeff Goins
Puts the whole thing very much into the frame. We all are creatures of habits and travelling young could have you hooked to something that will make your life richer, on every count. If you just take a break from the mundane of your life now, and feel, you know you want to travel now.


And As Foursquare calls it:
Your lungs are thanking you !! And here's to the beauty of public transit, and to always giving up your seat for the pregnant, elderly, and backpackers who haven't showered in a week

Cheers !! Go Travel !!


Comments

  1. beautifully put...can totally relate to it...god! almost makes me want to jump into action and go backpacking once more! And those lines there by Mr. Goins are real food for thought :)

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    1. Exactly. That's why you should jump into action, now :P

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