BENEFITS OF TRAVELLING
A
person who travels goes from one place to another, especially over a long
distance. You may travel throughout your city, state, country, another country,
even the whole world.
The
literal meaning of travelling is moving, wandering, roaming, roving, wayfaring,
migrating, sightseeing, etc.
In this world, we are known as travellers or
tourists. Our stay is temporary. We are therefore supposed to move about, see
the world thoroughly, acquire knowledge and experience, study everything that
God has created, appreciate its beauty, and fill your mind with thoughts, your
heart with feelings, and your soul with ecstasies. If you remain stagnant and
do not move about, you remain dull, ignorant, physically stressed, mentally narrow,
and
spiritually shallow.
To
travel is to enlarge your mental horizon and enrich your overall personality.
Travelling
is continuation of education, learning, experiencing, and expanding of impressions, beliefs, faiths about existence, including nature and the
entire earth, sky, rivers, oceans, valleys, gardens, hills, deserts, and the
ways people of different social, political, and religious systems live and work
and spend their time. Bt travelling, one knows their language, culture, arts, educational
and vocational means , eating and drinking habits, attitude towards youth, aging,
health, disease, death,etc.
The
more one travels, the more one learns. However, before you start travelling, you must know all the pros and cons of your journey because every journey has its own do’s and don’ts.
It
has been rightly said that travelling reduces stress, promotes personal growth,
enhances creativity, fosters cultural exchange, expands communication skills,
boosts confidence, and teaches adaptability.
The
American naturalist and essayist Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) said : Only that travelling is good which
reveals to me the value of home, and enables me to enjoy it better.
The
English writer Dr. Samuel Johnson
(1709-1784) said that the use of travelling is to regulate imagination by
reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Finally,
this is what the English poet-playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616) said: Rather see the wonders of the world abroad
than, living dully sluggardized at home, wear out thy youth with shapeless
idleness.
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G.R.Kanwal
6th September 2025
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