1. Improves Your Social Skills
Meeting new people is one of the great upsides of travelling. Whether it’s chatting up your roommate, making small talk with your seat-mate on a train or having a lively discussion at a local bar, you will be forced to improve your social skills. If new situations tend to make you anxious, travelling is a sure way to take steps toward reducing that anxiety.
2. Reduces Stress
Taking time off is an obvious way to recharge and reduce stress levels. But while staying home and resting is a worthy use of your time off, travelling removes you from your everyday life and lets you truly escape. Travelling lets you put aside your daily responsibilities and focus on yourself for a moment. When you return home you’ll feel refreshed and have the motivation you felt drained of before you left.
3. Accomplishes Goals
Having a travel “to-do” list and crossing things off that list keeps you motivated and positive. That list can include things like visiting certain locations or accomplishing something such as climbing a mountain or becoming conversational in the language of your next destination. Achieving those goals also increases confidence and gives a sense of success.
4. Makes You More Flexible
5. Teaches To Be More Patient
Travel can involve a lot of waiting. You’ll wait in lines, for flights or at restaurants. Learning how to cope with those waits, how to make conversation with those you’re waiting with and how to stay calm in frustratingly slow situations will teach you how to remain patient and calm in all situations.
6. You’ll Appreciate Your Home More
When we spend time away from home, especially in a place where we don’t have the same luxuries readily available to us we become more aware and appreciative for the luxuries you have back at home. Traveling through areas like that really make us appreciate what we do have, and often can spark the movement of something to support people living there experience a greater quality of life.
7. Embrace New Cultures
Not only does traveling provide a sense of adventure, but it also opens doors to cultures that do not revolve around you. Better yet, you will become appreciative of other cultures; instead of instinctively criticizing that which is “different,” you will be motivated to accept new cuisine or alternative forms of entertainment.
