Have you ever heard someone after a trip tells you how it changed his life? I’ve heard many times and I could tell myself have experienced. Obviously not ride the plane or a train and walk along unfamiliar streets that we converted , does it? What makes the travel experience as unique and revealing that changes so many lives?
Reflecting a little on the experience I have noticed that each trip, short or far, alone or in company, all I have changed somehow. The first time you travel to a distant place without my parents, was 16 years. Finding myself in a group of hundreds of girls my age gave me the security of knowing that I could relate, involved in a group of strangers, this trip taught me that I had that sense of wonder my house and familiar things.
At that time more that I realized this little inner revelation , but like a snowball down the mountain, have interesting long-term effects on my transformation into nomadic .
But more interesting is that it was the second time I visited the same destination and the experience was completely different. Is are the places that influence us in some way? A friend would say that some places “have special powers,” but all to look at the Colosseum , for example, had the same experience, do not be a little monotonous? Years later I found myself planning a trip to see the Eiffel Tower , two years thinking about how to do, dreaming, and once in Paris, I took a week to see the tower. The experience was so fascinating that I had forgotten.
Always leaves a mark on my mind when I met someone who has made this place special. What do you think?
Other times it is local culture that we are shocked and forced to adapt and see things with different eyes. That is another of the wonderful aspects of travel and something that can truly transform us. If you want to stay in the mindset of home, well we can stay at home (I have met many travelers end up judging the local culture of the countries they visit through the eyes of their own countries, I personally think that “best” and “worst” are relative to the destination and make comparisons with some 10,000 km away seems largely irrelevant). Travel forces us to change his skin, “to be someone else,” a sort of adaptation if you want to survive (those who have traveled to India, for example, insurance agree with me).
Have you experienced one such trip that changed your life? What do you think you changed when traveling?