31 January, 2010

Rules of Good Travelling

Some suggestions for when you travel:

  1. whenever you buy something, leave something else behind (e.g. if you get a new shirt, give the old one away)
  2. have a minimum travel time of 3 weeks
  3. goal is to meditate, hence you are searching for detachment from reality, awareness, inner peace, sense of belonging to the world, letting it all go.

It is a rollicoster of feelings, especially when you travel by yourself as you will be exposed to greater dangers, loneliness, difficulty in grasping the benefits of travelling alone, and no one to share your emotions with. If you travel with someone else, the experience will be much less absolute but still good as long as you will allow time for yourself. The positive side of having a travel buddy is that you can think out loud, debate, defend or abandon your arguments, and perhaps more quickly find your way.

Whether you opt to begin the travel alone or not, the experience of fully opening up to the world will allow you to reassess your life and put things back into perspective. You will more easily recognise right from wrong, re-establish life priorities, discover truths about man/life/universe.

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