If you manifest any doubts in your life about what you want to do in life, what path to take, go on a journey. Every journey heals, gives new direction and inspiration. Travel heals the soul and allows you to see everything from a new perspective. The key is to allow ourselves to be guided and to live new experiences in attentiveness to what new things we experience and what new things are revealed to us. Every journey is a new beginning and an invitation into the unknown. Will you allow yourself to be carried away by what is undiscovered?

Travelling in the past and today

In ancient times, travel was associated with many inconveniences. Travellers had to carry all their belongings with them, ensuring that they had all their food supplies and setting themselves up for a journey of several days. Nowadays, the concept of travel is no longer shrouded in the majesty of a grand expedition, but has become a decision. We could even say that travelling has become a lifestyle. The term ‘citybreak’ has become popular, meaning weekend travel, ideally correlated with the needs of a person who works during the week but only visits at the weekend. Thus, travellers are increasingly being provided with a ‘hop on’ and ‘hop off’ option, which is becoming an added advantage for visitors.

Equally rapidly growing is the popularity of so-called ‘nomad travellers’ or ‘nomad workers’, i.e., remote workers who choose far-flung destinations as their place of work in order to experience a taste of travel at the same time.

Has travel therefore become a new lifestyle that has revolutionised the world?

The beginner's mind

As an adult grows older, he often deprives himself of the ability to have a sincere admiration of the world, surrendering these natural qualities to chance. So something really wonderful and solid has to happen for us to notice it. What if the key is to notice the little things that make up your daily satisfaction with life? It's so important for mental balance to stop and take in what we have, from enjoying every bite of breakfast to a beautiful sunset. It doesn't have to be complicated, nor does it have to cost money.

In the rush of life, we often forget the things that delighted us. We forget how we hummed our favourite songs in the shower when we were young. We forget how we swayed to music while preparing a meal in the kitchen, or laughing out loud at someone's joke. A certain mechanism of locking ourselves into spontaneity and authenticity fully under the influence of social or cultural pressures to display a certain etiquette of behaving in public and focussing on the mundane of everyday life then sneaks in. However, we forget who is the architect of your life. Who established that it must be predictable and ordinary, that it is not befitting to surprise yourself or others around you sometimes with spontaneity and delight in what is new? If you have forgotten how to do this, the easiest way to refresh it is to travel, where everything unknown begins to absorb your attention and fascinate you.

A new perspective

Travel shows us multiculturalism on a macroscale. There is no room for a single, subjective perspective. We have the opportunity to see different models of life, ways of cooking, costumes, street businesses, etc. Such a broad view allows us to see and our lives from a completely new perspective, when we begin to realise that no truth is given to us forever. All it takes is a change of attitude. The writer, Anthony de Mello, mentions that:

Nothing has changed except my attitude. Therefore, everything has changed.

(Anthony de Mello)

Travel, therefore, also helps to take some personal balance, reviewing our previous priorities and values. Travel has become a revolutionary way of life and a method of refreshing our life goals and priorities. Such a reboot only requires a conscious decision based on the need to explore what is new and unpredictable. It certainly requires stepping out of the comfort zone and the ability to have a certain appreciation of the world, which allows for a careful examination of our own life and a personal reboot.