The Tranquility of Traveling.

Looking at the headlines of the newspapers, the riots in Kenya, the darkness of Gaza City, the state of Pakistan and the million and million of more unspeakable headlines facing this world, I feel close to them. I feel the need to go to the remote places in the world where no one else wants to go. Personally, in a blink of an eye I would go to Afghanistan and learn about their culture and they way they live or to Kenya and see the riots for myself, even though they are extremely exaggerated I think that it would still be tremendously interesting. There are so many atrocities that occur everyday and millions of people don’t even turn their heads, in many ways I would love to be the person who does.

While, reading the news I find every single article so interesting, and traveling to some pretty mind blowing places in the world every human being out there is so different and incredible to me. I don’t know why and I don’t know if I ever will but the cultures, the people and their stories are so captivating that I encapsulate each of them and treasure them in my mind. Speaking of traveling I think that it is the best schooling anyone can get, learning about another individual’s life is so fascinating and comparing it to my own. I mean every single person on this earth lives so differently from one another and every human being believes and cherishes different things. I find it so mind boggling to understand how we can all live on one planet and be so different, but I guess that is the beauty of the earth.

“Why would you ever want to go there? It’s so dirty.” Someone told this to me when I was about to travel to India and a year and a half ago. To me India is not a “dirty” place; to me India is a land of beauty and spirituality containing some of the oldest and most outstanding creatures and monuments on this earth. Although, not everyone sees it that way, going more into the traveling aspect; some see traveling as a place to get away and to relax and to party. Well I don’t, traveling to me is to make a journey anywhere at any time, to experience one other’s culture and their lifestyle; to see different views of the earth and to see different landscapes and distinctive scenery. Individually, I don’t see traveling as just a vacation I see it as experiencing and wandering throughout the earth and discovering places and people. Traveling brings serenity to my life and I love encountering and capturing every minute of it.