Why Travel?

Genevieve’s Perspective

At some point in any wanderlust bug-bitten traveller’s traipsing life, this dreadfully difficult question is bound to surface – Why on earth do you travel so much? I know my own parents often wonder.

I have been pondering over this question the past months as it increasing becomes apparent that travelling has become such a pertinent aspect of our lives. It is only slightly exaggerating to say that I live to travel, and I am constantly preoccupied with thoughts of future travels.

The simplest way to answer is to say that different strokes work for different folks. Some like buying designer bags and shoes, some frequently change the cars they drive, and some simply choose to travel.

Travelling broadens horizons and perspectives. Acutely aware that this is the cliché sort of answer expected out of a question like this, I wonder how many people truly understand what it means. I know I now do. There is always something new to learn from travelling, even at repeated destinations; new things I discover about myself when I put myself out of my comfort zone or about the destination. And I love the one-on-one attention the mister gives me whenever we travel together, which is almost always.

I am always humbly reminded that we, human beings, are very insignificant in the overall scheme of things. And that our troubles are correspondingly very minute even though they may seem so big at the moment they all but consume our minds. Travelling puts things in perspective. It teaches me to be humble, to be appreciative of what I have, and most importantly, to re-examine my life so that I don’t lose my central focus of living a full life.

Not trying to reinvent the wheel here, but if I need to sum it up in one phrase, I travel for the quality time dedicated to myself and my beloved.

Being somewhat a person prone to melancholy, I tend to fall back to my old ways i.e. pessimistic and completely consumed by life’s knocks that are thrown my way. Travelling is the way I reset myself.

Wilson’s Perspective

Coming soon…