When I talk about eleven startling secrets about traveling, it’s not a post about best deals and destinations. It’s about my realization about how being a world traveler made me a better person.
When I was a little girl I used to study very hard. Guess why? My maternal uncle used to take us for summer holiday trips to different places. But this happened only when all the cousins were doing well. While this custom stopped with time and circumstances, my love for travel was forever.
Luckily the friend I married loves to travel too. While studying in Delhi for our PGs, we got married in our second year. We wanted to travel together married. We are both traditional that way. Also, I felt many of the Indian socio-economic-cultural norms help form deeper relations. They help us live and love freely without the burden of negative emotions. While love made us want to get married, our love of travel made marriage fun. Delhi is a cool place to travel from. Most of the major airlines have flights here. Comfort travel is high on my list, but more important are the simple insights into the human life we get.
My 11 Startling Travel Secrets: SayYesToTheWorld
#1 When in Bhutan I realized why the people here have such high happiness quotient. It’s about being close to nature. Believing you exist as part of them.
#2 Human lives are strung in chords of the same song, that all animals and plants on this beautiful world sing.
#3 When we traveled to Srilanka the food made me realize how similar we all are, even across borders.Why exactly men fight no one knows but we are all poorer for going to wars. Travel inspiration exists everywhere. Most often when you are traveling you realize your thirst for some more of the same or something different. Whatever it is, more you travel the more you want to travel!
#4 In Iceland I realized how beautiful the world will be if we all stopped to think and cared more.Nature in its beauty gives us gifts of love, positivity, compassion, and empathy. By cutting trees and disturbing the ecological balance, we destroy our own chances of happiness. Is that worth it?
#5 In Milan the vertical gardens on the cityscape made me realize that’s the solution to pollution.
#6 In Singapore the Botanic garden stole my heart. That’s on my dream list. A treehouse, with mountains on one side and the sea beach on the other.No harm in dreaming right? When you love the world, the world loves you right back!
#7 In Dubai the splendor of all things with the contrasting stories of immigrant workers made me realize.
#8 The only way to a happier and peaceful world is one where all are educated.
While education is not a magic wand it will give you more choices.
- The choice not to be bonded labor.
- The choice to live life with dignity
- The choice to live with family.
#9 It’d also during traveling with family that some of my best blogging projects appeared.
I blogged while waiting at airports. I blogged sitting in a coffee shop in Paris. All this was possible because the Internet travels with us.
#10 The power of technology and the power of positive thinking, together makes travel an opportunity like no other.
#11 Travelling opens up the heart, mind, and soul.
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It challenges my ability to adjust. It makes me look deep into your soul. It makes me thankful. A thankful heart is a happy heart. Travel makes me happy.
Celebrate life with a thankful heart.
My thoughts on how travel makes me open-minded:
I stop feeling like I know everything. This, unfortunately, lasts for the duration of travel. Then I start feeling like a super mom, Batman with Harry Potter all rolled into one! I realize how blessed I really am. I feel thankful for the kindness of strangers.I understand the role of population, natural resources, and health of a nation. I also realized some truths we all know, but need to travel to accept!
Read my full disclosure here. While all the realizations are heartfelt, the travels are virtual.
Agree that the traveling opens both body, mind and soul. Travel is the best part of the life.
Travel is the only thing that makes us richer! We learn to open our minds and hearts, understand different perspectives and lose inhibitions. That’s travel for me.
The more we travel we tend to realize how all of us are thr same, how we can make a home anywhere on this beautiful planet and how we are part of nature. Wonderful post Amrita
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Every place you visit teaches you a thing or two and you rediscover yourself. 🙂
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Travelling opens up mind, body and soul. Many disturbed relations within family have been resolved due to travelling. The view changes and you start a fresh.
Wow that is a nice round up.
Each and everything is true about travel! You learn a lot about places, people and cultures. But the most importantly you learn a lot about yourself!
Wow! You have been to iceland. I feel envious of your travel diary. You have blogged at airport. I have written in local train.
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Hi Paresh you must read my disclaimer too .Its a little bit of virtual reality and reality mixed up.Thank you for your show of appreciation.
Being a fellow Traveler myself and having traveled to more than 5 countries, I truly agree with all the points you’ve listed. People are the same across the globe despite their beliefs. #SuperBloggerChallenge2018
True.Thank you for reading.
It is for reasons like this that people call travel the best teacher. The experiences make one see and learn new things every day.
Thanks Varsh
Superb way of depicting your ideas. I just love travelling and reading travel posts is what I like. This post is amazing too.
Thank you.
I love your video Amrita, and even this inspired me to make a video for #SayYestotheworld contest. Even though my youtube video is yet not approved by Indi. I just love your honestly and way of expression.
Thanks, Shipra.Do make a video.Its always fun!
wow Amrita
U are actually giving me travel goals! Love how you are able to have a takeaway from each place u traveled to
Hee hee do read my disclaimer.I love traveling and these are part fo my goals too!
Travelling has opened a new perspective in me truly. Differences in people, languages, cultures, cuisines have ceased to exist. They are merely various manifestations of the humanity at large. You get this amazing feeling of transcending the boundaries of the states and countries and still feel at home.
Loved the post and can totally relate to it being a globetrotter. While reading the post, I felt as if I am reading my own thoughts, very well penned down 🙂 #Superbloggerchallenge2018 #instacuppa
Thank you Vartika.
Wow you have travelled a lot Amrita . Even I love travelling n exploring . That’s the quality of a good blogger the one who can blog just everywhere
Thank you, Monika.Much of the places were virtual but the thoughts were real.;)
Almost similar to mine. We used to travel a lot since my childhood, since both my parents were bank employees and they got this LFC benefits. But it stopped after I got busy with my college, job etc! But getting married to a software engineer helped me explore countries.! A happy explorer here. And yes, this is a great post.
Thanks, Nimmy.Glad you liked the post.While my realizations were real, the places were virtual.It’s part of a contest.Thank you for the appreciation.
I have travelled a lot when I was a young man. I used to make at least 4 to 5 trips from north India to south India and it used to be hectic. Nowadays my travel times are more leisurely and not out of necessity. Thanks for sharing your travel experiences. Amrita.
Hi Jai some of these experiences were virtual too, but the thoughts were real.Thanks for reading.
Traveling makes one’s mind free. It makes you feel that you have wings to fly. Thanks for sharing your travel experiences, since, it’s gonna give others traveling ideas.
love the way you’ve explained places esp Milan for idea of vertical garden #superbloggerchallenge2018.
Thanks Richa
love the way you’ve explained places esp Milan for idea of vertical gardens.
Wow. I am totally jealous seeing the list of places I really need to travel more
Wow you travelled a lot across the border; mine explorations are yet within that. But I love travelling. Even when I am writing this comment I am sitting in a bus shelter in chandigarh. today is my first time solo journey with 5+ daughter out of town… We are good till now. Travelling opens our minds and widen the horizon of thinking. Good post. Iceland is one place I would go one day, surely. ????
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Thanks Mann
Travel is the best teacher – loved reading about the different things you learnt and observed in your travels.
Travelling opens are our mind and helps us to understand the world , people and culture. It rejuvenates us. I really enjoyed reading your post as always.
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I am in love with ur post, although I haven’t travelled as extensively as you have… But I completely agree that exposure to the world outside opens the horizon of our thoughts as well.
Beautiful post.
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Lovely post , agree with all points , I too love Travelling & exploring new places & locations 🙂
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