8 valuable life lessons that traveling offers which can completely transform your life forever

I am sure you must have heard the phrase “Travelling can be your best teacher.” It can open up a whole new world for you. It gives you a taste of myriads of culture, people, cuisines, and experiences.

You can learn a lot about life and yourself through your travel adventures. It’s like a continuous process of learning and growing in life.

8 valuable life lessons that travelling offers you which can be a real eye-opener

Travelling teaches you a lot about life. The lesson you learn along the way can be a real eye-opener. Here’re 8 valuable life-lessons travelling offers that can completely transform your life:

1. Choose experiences over the material things – All our life we chase material things. It starts with getting a good job, then a higher raise or promotion, and then the mass accumulation of the material stuff. The better car, expensive phones, expensive houses, and the list goes on and on. Where does it stop?

Travelling makes you realize that life isn’t just about chasing material things, rather it’s all about gaining new experiences. When you travel you leave all these material desires behind and focus instead on enjoying the wonderful experiences that a specific travel destination has to offer.

Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller (Ibn-Battuta).

2. Step into the unknown – Man cannot discover oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. This quote by Andre Gide perfectly summarises the impact traveling has on your growth. How it makes you leave your comfort zone behind and step into the unknown.

Well, let me explain. When you travel, you go don’t go by the book. You leave your mundane fixed routine behind and instead focus on gaining new experiences. You encounter new languages and dialects, food, and culture. All these experiences make you leave your comfort zones and assist you in your personal growth.

3. Go with the flow – Most of the time we operate through a planned schedule but travelling provides you with an opportunity to go with the flow. Though your trips are mostly planned, it’s highly likely, that it might not go exactly the way you want.

In this case, it’s better to let go of your desire to control everything and to rather go with the flow.

4. Find joy in the smallest of things – In our daily lives, we are so busy hustling and chasing our dreams that we have forgotten to be happy. In all this humdrum, we have forgotten to smile. We are so focused on chasing the bigger things that we have forgotten to appreciate the small things in life.

While travelling you finally find time to slow down in life – to enjoy the sunset and sunrise, to savour a local delicacy, to gaze at the beautiful mountain top or seashore. It makes you realize that life is all about finding joy in the smallest of things.

5. Makes you humble – Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world – Gustave Flaubert. How? Let me explain.

We get so caught up in our day-to-day affairs – so caught up in our heads that we tend to make it a focal point of our lives. You get so fixated on the problems that you fail to see how tiny is the magnitude of your problem when you see yourself as a part of this Gaint Universe.

Travelling gives you an experience of meeting new people of various kinds, and cultures living in all sorts of dire situations but still finding joy in their lives, smiling with all their might. All this makes you humble and grounded.

6. Teaches you to be mindful – One of the biggest problems we face in today’s day and age is lack of concentration. We constantly shift our focus from one thing to another in our effort to multitask. This often leads to anxiety and stress.

So, when you travel from one destination to another, you get a chance to unwind. You finally start to live in the present moment. You start being mindful of what you want you really want to experience.

7. Teaches you gratitude – When you travel you realize that are countless things you should be grateful for – the air you breathe, the water you drink, the shelter and comforts you have.

It makes you realize how people are living joyfully without these basic amenities of life while you take these for granted. It makes you modest and grateful for all the things you have. It makes you realize that you are nothing but a speck of dust within this galaxy.

8. Appreciate Nature – When you travel you are most likely to be awed by the beauty Nature has to offer you. The greenery around, the sea waves crashing through each other, or the sun peeking through the high hills all provide for a magnificent view.

With all these mesmerizing scenes you also see the destruction we as mankind has imposed on this planet. You can see this in the loss of forest cover around the world, melting glaciers, and dying coral reefs. All this disheartens you and makes you appreciate nature more. It makes you aware and you are bound to make conscious choices of protecting Nature.

These are some of the important life lessons travelling can offer you. What are the life lessons that you have learned through your travel journey? Share in the comments section below. Wish you all “Happy Travelling.”