Wanderlust - a desire to travel
By
Murali Murthy
Travelling for me is therapeutic, addictive and a sense of freedom from monotony.
It makes me alive, let's me experience life beyond usual.
Travelling challenges our perspectives, and helps us evolve our perspectives towards life.
By simply standing in front of a Beach, or on top of a mountain, it makes me feel so small.
There are many who loves travelling Solo, but I want to experience every journey with my loved ones.
Be it adventurous, leisurely, spiritual, official or romantic, each journey gives invaluable life experiences about world around us.
The excitement starts with planning, packing and the night before the journey is always restless.
Each journey, each destination gives lessons that cannot be learnt in books and classrooms, it teaches how to savour every moment, to be humble, to survive in various conditions and situations.
Travelling and seeing places opens up your mind to new ideas, new culture, new traditions, new lifestyles, clothing, dialect that it makes you more tolerant towards this beautiful and diversed country and world.
Probably something that the Clapping Boys and their political lordship should experience, to realize they cannot force their religious, linguistic agendas on us, and respect the diversity.
Travelling makes us get out of the comfort of our home, known surroundings and take a leap of faith towards the unknowns, new environment, new people, expanding the horizon.
Eventually teaching us to value experience, life more than running behind materialistic pleasures and splurging lifetime savings in building that one dream home and being stuck.
Travelling makes us good storytellers, as we will be itching to share our experiences and stories!
When our routine, confined, mechanical and claustrophobic life reaches the nauseating levels, the only remedy is to pack your bags and hit the road!
Maybe someday, I reach a stage in my life and mean it when I say "Let's travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us".
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