5 reasons to run away from home
1.Travel makes you a better person. The more you encounter new places and new people with lives different from the one you live at home, the larger and stronger your spirit will become. New languages, new customs, new ways of living make you reflect on your own life and can even give you the little boost you need to change whatever isn’t making you happy.
2.Change is good. And getting away from home changes everything. Although home will be pretty much as you left it when you return—same place, same friends, same job you’ll be different: smarter, deeper, better able to deal. And, even, better able to make more changes if that same-old life suddenly feels a size too small.
3.Travel eliminates ruts in your personal road. When you change become smarter, more experienced, more profound, more skilled—you stop obsessing about stuff that doesn’t matter, and you begin to create fresh tracks that are important to the new and improved you.
4.Travel lets you get good and lonely. And that kind of lonely is food for the soul. Solitude is a gift when you travel. No one wants to be anguished and alone, to put it mildly, but getting away from familiar surroundings and familiar people means you’ll have to meet new people or decide to be quieter than usual and just see what happens. What’ll happen is that you’ll get better acquainted with yourself. You’ll discover that you’re better company than you’d ever expected. And that’s always a good thing.
5.Travel shows who you are—and who you can become. You know that expression, “Wherever you go, there you are”? Usually it just means you can run but you can’t hide from yourself. When you’re traveling, though, the expression is literally true. In Beijing or Paris or Moscow, or 60 feet underwater off Costa Rica—wherever— you’re on your own. Away from home, friends, family, your zip code, your desk, you have to act and react, with no one and nothing—other than your conscience, your self-awareness and your basic wit—to guide you. Feels scary at first, but it also feels good to know that you can handle being yourself wherever you go. Being alone, being away—temporarily—from all the visible and invisible means of support that bolster and underpin your life, but which may also make it just a little too safe and too confining, means you’re growing—feeling your own competence blossom and your self-reliance soar. That’s a feeling that’s definitely worth leaving home for.
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