Don’t travel, stay home. Of course, I am joking.
You know that I am very insistent about encouraging you to travel.
So, to counter, I have decided to compile a list of reasons why we consider travel highly dangerous for your health and emotional stability.
Keep reading if you think you’re not going to be able to do anything other than look for a one-way ticket and pack your suitcase.
1. You will not be the same as the one who went on a trip again
If you think you’re perfect and you shouldn’t change anything about yourself, you shouldn’t travel.
Because doing so will make you face challenges because maybe your head will ‘click’ when you see new ways of life because you will know places and people with different stories because every day is different.
For all that and everything we are going to tell you later, do not travel if you do not want to change.
2. You’ll discover facets of yourself that you didn’t know
Maybe being at home, you do not stop to think about certain aspects of your personality, but travelling makes you get out of your routine so much that you may live in situations in which you have never been involved.
You will probably have to solve problems that you did not even know could exist, you must talk to strangers, you will be surrounded by people who do not speak your language, you feel alone…
You will get ahead anyway and discover that you have much more in you than you thought.
Indeed you are much more friendly, empathetic or patient than you now believe.
3. You will consider that other forms of life are possible
Travelling makes us see that not only our way of living is the valid one.
When you are with your backpack in tow, you will see other ways of conceiving life and, above all, you will chat with people who will discover new possibilities.
Many are those who go on a trip and become more creative with business ideas or consider their lifestyle and decide to start a nomadic life.
Maybe you also begin to feel how you can do it to travel indefinitely, or you start thinking about working a little less and spending more time travelling or doing other things you love.
4. You will want to learn all possible languages
You will agree that travelling is not only about observing, but knowing the culture of a place involves chatting with people.
In those countries where Spanish is not spoken, the approach is perhaps a little more complicated, so you will return from your trip wanting to perfect your English or start in other languages that make you connect even more with the world.
5. You’ll realize you need very little to be happy
You will realize that you only need what you have in your suitcase to be happy, and that everything you buy while standing at home you don’t need that much.
The more you travel, the less stuff you will take with you. And, above all, the more hooked you are to travel, almost everything you save will automatically become money to continue consuming the best drug in the world: knowing the world.
6. You will lose the fear of so many things
Because travelling is very dangerous, right?
They always say terrifying things about that country, travelling alone paralyzes you, you think you will not be able to communicate with anyone, surely you can not eat anything, or maybe you can not even take out the camera because they are going to steal it …
However, little by little, you will realize with your own eyes that the world is much less dangerous than you have been painted and that you are capable of absolutely everything.
You would not be the first who, although scared to death from travelling alone, ends up thinking that it has been one of the best experiences of his life and repeats it again and again.
If you don’t try it, you don’t know.
7. Your heart will beat much more than usual frequently
Although it won’t give you a heart attack, travelling will speed up your pulses and put you in adrenaline situations several times daily.
Why?
Because you’re getting out of the routines!
Because maybe you have never seen yourself in that situation because you will have to find your life to eat and sleep because everything you are witnessing impresses you so much that your heart goes wild.
These dozens of new stimuli will test your heart and, at the same time, make you feel alive.
8. You will learn to live more in the present
When we are at home, we tend to plan for the future, to think about what we will do tomorrow, on the weekend or the next vacation.
However, when you travel, you are obliged to put all your attention on the now and the nearest future and put both the past and the future into perspective.
Travelling allows you to relativize the problems and give importance to the present moment.
9. You’ll get too used to the flexibility
Another of the great dangers of travel is that you learn to live less thoughtfully, you become flexible.
Today you can be here eating at a street stall and sleeping in a hostel.
Tomorrow, if you feel like it, you can take your backpack and sleep in another city, in a more elegant hotel or eat in a completely different place.
You let yourself be amazed by what the journey puts you ahead of, and you quickly get used to the flexibility.
In addition, you also become more tolerant and patient and realize that not everything you plan goes well and that, in addition, that is also wonderful.
10. Your travel cravings will increase exponentially
Sorry, we must warn you that, instead of diminishing, the travelling cravings grow and grow as more places you know.
And everything comes because you meet other travelers who suggest that other dream place, you plug into that drug of diving on the Internet looking for places, you start following Instagram accounts that inspire you …
In short, you enter a spiral that always leaves you wanting more.
11. You will begin to be more aware of everything around you
By leaving home and knowing other realities, you become more aware of everything that happens around you.
You compare your culture with that of others, and you begin to see the lights and shadows of what you do.
Maybe you stop to think more about your way of acting with the environment and start leading a healthier and more conscious life.
In short, travelling provides a lot of nourishment to the brain.
12. You will feel unstoppable
Because if you’ve already gotten there, what’s stopping you from doing it there?
13. You’ll make relationships for a lifetime in a matter of days
When you travel, you realize that you don’t need to make 20 holes in an agenda to maintain a friendship.
Personal relationships become much more intense in a matter of hours or days.
Maybe you come across someone in the hostel, decided to go out for a while with them and end up forging a lifelong friendship.
You would not be the first to fall in love with someone travelling, especially if you travel alone.
Travelling makes us have our nerves on the surface, more open with the world, and the opportunities to connect with other people multiply exponentially.
14. Maybe you feel too much at home
Be careful.
Although perhaps you were afraid of missing your pillow or bathroom, none of that may happen, but quite the opposite.
Some discover that their place is more outside their home than in it.
15. You’ll Find That Freedom Tastes Too Good
Once you try it, you can’t stop tasting it… And that, sometimes, can become so “dangerous” that maybe you end up buying a one-way ticket.
16. You’ll feel healthier than usual
We don’t say it. The doctors say it.
Going on a trip reduces stress and makes you move your body, and your energy, both body and mental, rise to unsuspected levels.
17. Maybe you don’t want to go back
Yes, that’s the worst reason of all. You may not want to go home.
During the trip, you will hear inspiring stories from other travelers, you will feel free, you will learn, you will enjoy flexibility, you will live in the present, and you will feel healthier, more alive, and better.
The Final Warning
Consider yourself warned: Travel is a gateway to transformation.
If you prefer routine over the thrill of the unknown, the comfort of the familiar over breathtaking new experiences, and a life firmly planned out over spontaneous adventure … then by all means, stay home!
For the rest of us, the open road calls.
The world, its diverse people, and the hidden corners of ourselves await discovery. Embrace the potential for change, the thrill of the unexpected, and the undeniable joy of knowing there’s always another horizon to chase. Will you heed the siren song of wanderlust?
The choice is yours.
Are you ready for the next adventure?