See the World

In today’s tech-obsessed world, social media might be the perfect platform to show travelers around the world the beauty of the world, but travel is so much more than just getting that perfect picture of yourself.

Travel should be enjoyable and meaningful. It should inspire and excite you, ground and rejuvenate you, challenge and give memories to you for rest of your life, and most of all it must humble you. Travel gives us our best stories, our most treasured memories, and countless lessons about life. It teaches us about ourselves and others, broadens our horizons and, like a reset button, forces us to refocus on what really matters. At the same time, some people don’t like travelling at all. They do it only because they need, not because they want. And I can understand that perspective too, sometimes travelling, especially backpacking can be very stressful, being in a constant rush, trying to survive with few hours sleep. But then there are people who truly enjoy travelling. What travelling means to me? For sure, everybody has different answer to this, but personally I love it because it is best way to see things what this planet has to offer: A lot of different cultures, endless amount of people, totally different landscapes, and ways to live life. Seeing atmosphere for first time in totally new continent is amazing, for me personally it felt like I’m in different planet. It also gave me opportunity to see and try things what I like to do and what I dislike. You are probably getting most of your knowledge about your destination from internet, so that information includes opinions, old information, feelings from someone who has been there only once for few days and something bad happened to him. Especially in big countries there can be huge differences between cities, for example if you go to one city at the first and it feels like it’s not right place or country for you, after going to another city further from first one can be dream place for you.

In my opinion, everyone who has a chance to travel, give it a try. You have bigger chance to get positive experience from it when you have open mind and positive attitude. You will see and feel something new, seeing different type of buildings, statues, trying new type of food, talking with locals. Afterwards if it doesn’t feel like it’s something what you like to do, at least you have tried it and learned something new. What are you still waiting, book a trip!

Jasse Heikkilä