There are more benefits of packing your bag and
travelling.
1. Improves Your Social Skills
Meeting new people is one of the great
upsides of travelling. Whether it's chatting up your roommate, making small
talk with your seat-mate on a train or having a lively discussion at a local
bar, you will be forced to improve your social skills (especially if you're
travelling solo). If new situations tend to make you anxious, travelling is a
sure way to take steps toward reducing that anxiety.
Taking time off is an obvious way
to recharge and reduce stress levels. But while staying home and resting is a
worthy use of your time off, travelling removes you from your everyday life and
lets you truly escape. Travelling lets you put aside your daily
responsibilities and focus on yourself for a moment. When you return home
you'll feel refreshed and have the motivation you felt drained of before you
left.
Having a travel "to-do"
list and crossing things off that list keeps you motivated and positive. That
list can include things like visiting certain locations or accomplishing something
such as climbing a mountain or becoming conversational in the language of your
next destination. Achieving those goals also increases confidence and gives a
sense of success.
Sometimes things don't go
according to plan while travelling. Maybe your flight is cancelled or it rains
the day you're scheduled to go on an epic outdoor adventure. It's okay -- there
are other flights to take (or trains, or buses) and maybe on that rainy day
you'll discover a hidden bookstore to explore or an adorable cafe to
experience. Travelling helps you to be more flexible and open minded, making
you more zen in your everyday life.
Travel can involve a lot of waiting.
You'll wait in lines, for flights or at restaurants. Learning how to cope with
those waits, how to make conversation with those you're waiting with and how to
stay calm in frustratingly slow situations will teach you how to remain patient
and calm in all situations.
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