As soon as people graduate high school, they’re expected to immediately go to college and pay for their education.
Although this is completely fine, I do admire those who delay their education to travel.
It’s impossible for an 18-year-old to know exactly what they want to do for the rest of their life, because they haven’t truly experienced it yet.
Traveling helps people understand the world and truly grasp some sort of concept of how the world works.
Why shouldn’t we do this while we’re young? While we stay have the time to?
When people are stuck in the same environment, they’re not truly experiencing what it’s like to be around other people who are extremely different than themselves.
Traveling around the world is expensive, but it provides valuable life lessons. It gives people experience of different cultures, beliefs and traditions. Being in different settings around people who are opposite of us gives us a difference in perspectives.
I have traveled to a few different places and experienced different cultures.
Going to New York for the first time was very different for me and my family. In Texas, we’re used to driving everywhere and relying on our vehicles, not our bodies. In New York, everybody walking everywhere was new and made me realize how different other lives are compared to my own. Everyone was in a fast paced environment.
I’ve also traveled to Puerto Rico. The food there is different from the U.S. since there isn’t a lot of salt added to their food. The culture there is also more family oriented and more friendly to strangers than here in America.
The difference between New York and Puerto Rico was how different the culture was. People were more interactive with tourists in Puerto Rico compared to the people in New York. In New York, everyone was minding their own business.
Surrounding yourself with people who have different personalities helps us become more known to other cultures and have more of an idea what the world is really like.
When we’re young we don’t realize how much of the world we have yet to experience, but we’re expected to know exactly what we want to do the rest of our life. Traveling doesn’t mean going to other countries or even states. It can simply be the nearest city.
Dallas and Fort Worth are two vastly different cities with different cultures, diversity and beliefs.
Dallas is known for its love of sports such as the Dallas Mavericks or the Dallas Stars. It’s also widely known for its nightlife, being fast paced and the pride of its tall buildings.
Fort Worth is the opposite of Dallas. Sure, it has its nightlife, but the culture is different. Because Fort Worth was a cattle industry, it earned its name as Cowtown.
Fort Worth has Dickies Arena which hosts rodeos, and it also has the Stockyards which is where the cattle drives happen, western stores and museums that show Fort Worths history.
These are two different cities that people could visit and experience the distinctness of the culture.
Texas and California are two different political states. California has more democratic beliefs while Texas is more of a republican state with more traditional values.
Meeting different people who come from different backgrounds can change the way we think about certain topics, along with having a more open mindset than a narrow mindset.
Traveling is a privilege that many people don’t get to do, so when you have the chance to travel, take that chance as it can lead to something worth more than life its own.
One of the greatest writers, Mark Twain, even said staying in the same environment can lead to narrow headed people. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”
