Get Inspired: Travel to Learn, Observe and Grow
Discover how travelling with an observant and open mind can educate, inspire and transform you. Learn to see beyond monuments and truly experience the people, culture and world around you.
Travel, it’s not just a word but a complete sentence.
This six-letter word carries more than any dictionary can explain. It’s an entire idea, concept and energy.
The human has always been encouraged to get educated from various sources and institutions. Education and learning can’t be encircled or confined to definite mediums; rather, it’s something which is sprinkled everywhere around us. Most of us are so lost in responsibilities and the chaos around us that we stop observing our physical and non-physical surroundings.
A human is not just a physical shape but much more than that…
A Human Being Is More Than What We See
What most of us understand has two major components: an entire physical body and a soul.
Then comes the concept of personality.
It’s a collective work of many physical and non-physical elements of our existence.
We describe it with distinctive terms like:
List
- Spirit
- Aura
- Vibes
- Sureness
- Astuteness
- Demeanor
…and much more.
Everything contributes to building your personality. But where do these components come from?
Qualification and Education
Okay, let’s understand two major sources: qualification and education. Many a time, we fail to understand these two in their true meanings.
Qualification is a skill which makes you suitable for a certain task, and you need to go through a proper learning process for that specific task. Majorly, you qualify yourself to get a job and maintain your finances.
Education is beyond anything. It actually makes your personality stronger and brighter.
So, the question is: from where does education come?
Where Does Education Come From?
So, the question is: from where does education come?
On a broader scale, it starts coming from the day you are born. A child starts learning things from day one.
The first and most awaited reaction is crying. That is an expression of a changed surrounding, and that clarifies that the child observes the change. That’s the first learning and true education.
And things keep moving in life, from feeding to speech. That is the basic education we all receive involuntarily, and that goes on till we die.
When We Stop Observing
But as we grow and get engaged in our routine lives and motives to achieve something visible and concrete, to become successful in life and in our professional fields, we lose the ability to observe and learn from our surroundings.
Surrounding here encircles everything that falls within it—for example, family, society, nature and anything which we see or feel.
We actually stop educating ourselves by keeping ourselves away from many things like books, debating on different topics, learning about history, geography, current events, and the list is longer than we assume.
We always give ourselves reasons to keep ourselves away from these sources. The first and most valid reason is that we are swamped with other important things, which is also true to an extent.
Travelling: An Underrated Source of Education
So, what is the source which doesn’t need extra time but only a little planning within our usual lives?
One of the strongest and most interesting sources is “Travelling.”
But sadly, that’s one of the most underrated as well.
Most travelers choose their destinations based on popular monuments or places to visit. They follow a prefixed itinerary and keep their focus on seeing things and taking pictures, and they learn only superficially from that trip.
They consider going on a trip to be just about enjoying and having fun, getting away from their routine life, and using it as a stress buster.
TRAVELLING IS AN ABSOLUTE SOURCE OF EDUCATION
Travelling provides you every chance to learn new things—culture, societies, history, architecture, geography, nature, crafts, people, races and what not.
Travel With an Active Mind
Travelling with an active brain is an experience for a lifetime.
Not everyone knows the art of learning and educating themselves from every existing thing, but a wise brain understands how important it is to keep all the components of the brain in the right place to make full use of the time and resources they have used to plan a vacation.
You can never call yourself well-travelled until you feel that your knowledge has increased, that you have seen the culture and traditions of a different place.
You don’t have to give yourself a task during your trip other than your excursion. You just need to remain attentive and an observer of new things.
This smallest detail is going to add to your knowledge.
Every Journey Changes You
Every detail of your travel, from point A to point B, is going to give you a lifetime experience.
This experience is invaluable. You feel like a different person.
Every single trip makes you a slightly different person.
If you understand the value of travelling with full attention, wisdom and observation, then trust yourself to elevate your persona to a level so loud that you don’t need words to explain it to anyone.
Any information added to your knowledge is education.
Your aura becomes visible to your surroundings.
Books Can Teach You, But Travel Lets You Experience
What books teach you is not deniable, but experiencing something on the ground and witnessing it with your own mind and eyes is completely on a different level.
Learning about a country during travel is not at all an impossible task. It’s a hand-in-hand experience throughout the entire journey.
It’s not just about knowledge, education or your own confident personality. You can also use it in your professional life.
You will become an encyclopedia for others, especially for first-time or young travellers.
Learn the Right Things
But learning is one thing, and learning the right things is very important.
I have witnessed many travellers who learn shallow things about a culture, tradition and people without actually understanding certain situational acts, circumstances and the deeper meaning behind them.
What Does Travelling Truly Mean?
Perhaps, this is what travelling truly means—not simply moving from one place to another, but allowing every place to leave something behind in you.
Observe the people, listen to their stories, notice the smallest details, understand the differences and respect what you may not immediately understand.
Travel with your eyes open, but more importantly, travel with an open mind.
Because when you return from a journey, you should not only have photographs in your camera or memories in your heart; you should also carry a little more knowledge, a little more wisdom and a slightly different version of yourself.
Travel to see. Travel to understand. Travel to learn. And above all, travel to grow.
Quotes That Inspire Us to Travel
Famous Quotes About Travelling
Here are some famous quotes about travelling, I am sure these will inspire you to travel whenever it is possible in life……
01 — MARK TWAIN
This Mark Twain’s quote will remain among the top and most inspiring ones.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
02 — HELEN KELLER
No other quote supports this article’s message as powerfully and justly as Helen Keller’s expression.
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
03 – No other quote but this expression by Pat Conroy supports our article so perfectly.
“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.”
04 – This quote by Augustine perfectly supports our idea of education through travelling.
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
05 – One of the most inspiring and courageous quotes comes from James Michener.
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.”
06 – This quote of Aldous Huxley supports the education on the field with first-hand experience is undeniable unbeatable.
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
07 – It is not just a quote, but an agenda given by Susan Sontag that every traveller should have in mind.
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
08 – Martin Buber explains it perfectly: many things are discovered only once you reach your destination.
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
09 – I will never have enough words to describe this quote by Caskie Stinnett, which is nothing short of poetry to my ears.
“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.”
10 – No quote can describe an observant mind better than this one from Jawaharlal Nehru.
“We live in a world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”