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Today, more people than ever are travelling. There is much excitement in planning a trip and eventually arriving at a destination,thrilled to be part of a new experience. Despite many of us arrive home from holidays completely exhausted, the experience usually makes us thirst for more adventure. Travel is relativey cheap these days and more and more people have caught the travel bug.
When I was little and my friends talked to me about their holiday plans, I would be consumed with envy. I always wondered why it could not be me who was making plans. Why coudn’t my family be going away? Being part of a large family was the reason of course! Feeding and clothing us sinply left nothing over to holiday on. How I envied those same friends when they returned from holidays full of talk about what they’d seen and done!
I don’t look back on this experience, or lack of experience, depending on how you look at it, as having been so bad. After all, a day or so after arriving home, the holiday talk with my peers always died down and life would go on as usual. The reality is that I have made up for that deprivation many times over since. I have travelled through most of Britain, Europe, America, and lived in different parts of Asia. Now that I reside permanently in Australia, I have ensured that I have experienced much that this beautiful country has to offer. All of it I have found exciting and stimulating.
Interestingly, my parents eventually travelled too. As soon as their children reached adulthood they were off on their travels.
But why is it that some of us feel the need to leave the comfort of home and seek travel experiences? Let’s face it. It’s usually hard work to plan and prepare for the adventure. There’s a certain anxiety that is part of the exercise. Frankly speaking, travel is very tiring. And, the reality is that, despite having had a wonderful holiday, almost everyone I know tends to have a love affair with their own beds (and pillows) on their return home. Most crave a home-cooked meal. For a time at least they wallow in the routine and mundanity of everyday life, and almost everyone looks forward to catching up with family and friends.
So what is it? What makes us thirst for new experiences? For some it may simply be to catch up with family members who have moved overseas for work. Fortunately due to the low cost of travel, the world has become a shrinking place, so why shouldn’t they? It’s attractive.
Then there are some people who believe that holidays are a way of relaxing, of letting go, of downing tools. Have I missed something? Most people I see on holidays seem to be forever doing things, seeing things, and having wonderful experiences. It’s been my belief that they all fall into bed at night utterly exhausted. Despite this, they get up early the next day, ready to do it all again.
The reality is that holidays are hard work. They are tiring. They cost money and they leave large dents in our bank accounts. But who would want to grow old a doddery not having seen the Ruins of Pompeii, St Peter’s Square, Buckingham Palace, The Eiffel Tower, or the Leaning Tower of Pizza, to name but a few?
You see travel expands our horizons. It is our passport to worthy conversation. It lets us see and make comparisons on, how other people live. Travel is seductive. As a window on the world, travel develops compassion and understanding in people. Also, when you have travelled, when you have experienced the many wonders of the world, you thirst for more.
The world is a shrinking place. Opportunity for travel has never been better. So if you would like to expand your horizons do so! Determine where you would like to go, prepare as best you can, presume nothing, but hope for experiences beyond belief.