Let me just say for the record that I’ve never traveled anywhere on my own. I don’t have anything against it, it’s just what I’ve done so far whenever I’ve traveled to different locations. This has been a topic that has intrigued me for a while and I’ve seen some of my favorite YouTubers talk about it. For me, I personally like sharing new experiences with people. When I won the flight tickets from Jacob last year I knew that I wanted to bring my girlfriend along with me.
The experience wouldn’t have been the same without her and it helped create memories that will last a lifetime for both of us. Since that Italy trip in 2014, I’ve wanted to do similar trips with friends/family to different locations around the world. The whole experience back then was so fresh and unique that it makes me smile even to this day when I look back and reflect on all that I did.
Like I said before, the trip I took to Italy matured me and opened my eyes to the world and made me more grateful and also made me take advantage of any opportunity I could get to go out and see and explore and become immersed in a new culture. It tickles me on the inside when I look back at all of the fun that I’ve had with these trips over the years and the people who I’ve gone with have made them that much sweeter.
Solo traveling is something that has entered my mind but I don’t know if it’s something that I am ready for yet. There’s a follower of mine on this blog and a follower of Jacob’s who I am friends with. His name is Vishal, and although I’ve never met him in-person, he has made an impact on me. He’s from India, and he won the second set of flight tickets that Jacob had handed out. Vishal recently went to Dubai and he went by himself. It was the first time he had went abroad and man oh man, did he enjoy himself.
Vishal is a true explorior and he really is one of the nicest down-to-earth people I’ve seen on social media. He treats everyone with respect and is super easy to talk to. I truly hope I meet him one day and he’s inspired me to really try solo travel in the future. I definitely think I’ll do it at some point. When that time will be, I don’t know. But what I do know is that although I’ve never done it, there are some benefits of solo traveling.
For one thing, traveling alongside your friends and family is fun, but it can occasionally be annoying. Since you’re always together on the excursion, you might disagree with certain things as to what you want to do and you could also get on each other’s nerves. Italy wasn’t all fine and dandy. I was around my friends which was great but we all got onto each other’s nerves multiple times throughout the trip. I learned that that’s going to happen from time to time since we’re around each other constantly.
When you solo travel, you force yourself to get out of this comfort zone you’ve secluded yourself into. It forces you to try new things and meet new people and really be a different person in a way, which is a great thing. Everyone can adapt a new trait and that can be greatly beneficial because you learn so much from that and are also able to teach others as well and make impacts on them.
It may be scary to go on an adventure on your own but at the end of the day, the world is an adventure. One day, we’re all going to have to solve or do something by ourselves. We’re not always going to have a shoulder to lean on. We all need to be strong-minded individuals and that’s something that I need to improve on. Too often, I rely on others to help me out in tricky situations and I am tired of doing that. I need to get my head in the game a bit more and trust myself and allow myself to think clearly and achieve my goals.
The World is Yours 