I’ve taught in foreign villages, created friendships from continent to continent, and learned some of life’s most precious lessons while scattering pieces of my heart around the world. Throughout the time I’ve spent in 15 different countries, I’ve come to learn that travel let’s one acquire an outlook on life that embodies wisdom, perspective, and clarity: something I like to call a traveler’s sixth sense. The first component of the traveler’s sixth sense is feeling a natural sense of wisdom. I felt my first grasp of this wisdom when I was teaching Geography in Fiji. I began this new endeavor by nervously embracing the challenge, but once I saw the smiling faces of my students, everything fell into place. Their
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excitement to learn about the world calmed me. They simply opened themselves up to me and my teachings, with no hesitation. As a result, I learned something too. They showed me that when you give your heart to somewhere or something, and let the world do with it what it may, the world returns to you a sense of wisdom that you couldn’t have fathomed before. The second component is allowing yourself to value perspective. I began to see this on a journey of mine to Australia. There I learned that once you have seen the moon on the other side of the world, you’re capable of holding life with a new set of values. These values embrace what every traveler comes to accept
