Why Travel Makes You Feel Alive
Why Travel Makes You Feel So Alive by Peter Cheung (2018) explains that people often have different outlooks on their days when they are traveling. This idea can be applied to a banking system to encourage people to live the present day to the fullest, while also saving to travel.
Most of us yearn for more adventure and what it brings to our lives. The yearning to travel is a manifestation of something deeper. It is an expression of our core desire to experience more meaningful and fulfilling lives. This is why we spend trillions of dollars every year to step foot on unfamiliar lands and immerse ourselves in cultures not our own.
The act of traveling is one of the most important ways we engage in to satisfy our yearning for adventure; that is, really our yearning for more meaningful and fulfilling experiences. This is why we feel so alive when we’re traveling. We engage ourselves in activities that satisfy our yearning.
During our travels, we’re compelled to treat each day as an opportunity to create deeply meaningful, memorable, and satisfying experiences by steeping ourselves in the richness that every minute of every hour has to offer. When we’re traveling, we are thinking to ourselves, I want to create some great memories today. We set our sights on having good days, whether we’re aware of this or not. And through this process of journeying we learn what it means to live for daily vibrancy and what this means for the life story we want to create…
When we travel, we pay attention to the food we eat, admire the architecture around us, dip into curious boutiques, sample a guided tour, wonder at the history in our surroundings, and perk our ears to the foreign chatter between the people in the town square. We open ourselves up to sensory inputs that we’ve come to ignore at home. We talk a little softer, listen a little more carefully, tread a little lighter, and smile more. We’re more present and open to what our current surroundings have to offer.
When we’re at home, we neglect to practice such presence in our daily lives and so they atrophy. In his bestseller on the art of long-term traveling, vagabond veteran Rolf Potts describes the phenomenon as such:
“…those who travel the world hoping to get ‘blinded by the light’ are often blind to the light that’s all around them.”...
Travel makes us feel alive, in this regard, because it forces us to seek out the positive emotional experiences inherent in our surroundings. From the streets we walk on, the way we interact with people, the taste of our food, the drinks we imbibe, and the unfamiliar way the familiar sun sets from this foreign vantage point. (Cheung, 2018)
The article discusses how, when traveling, people tend to have very positive outlooks on each day, which they often do not have when in their daily lives. When on trips, people are set on creating memories and making their most of their time. However, people tend not to have this perspective on life when in their daily lives.
While many people find joy and fulfillment in traveling, it may be partly because they are seeking that joy and fulfillment. If people were to look for joy and meaning in their day-to-day lives, they may feel more fulfilled in everything they do. Many people save their money for the future and for traveling, sacrificing spending money on things they might enjoy in their day-to-day lives. How can I create a banking system that encourages people to live joyful and fulfilling lives now, while also allowing them to save for traveling and their futures?
References.
Cheung, P. (2018, March 27). Why Travel Makes You Feel So Alive. Medium. https://medium.com/@realpetercheung/the-journey-why-travel-makes-you-feel-so-alive-dda5d429f184
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