How many years must pass before we take charge of what we want to do?
Perhaps it is the overload of information on the net, but it seems that at present, the greatest dream of many is to travel the world. However, few do. The comfort zone is a place that traps you, that keeps you there with deceit and that will always make you look in other directions except the one that will lead you to fulfill your dreams.
Making the decision is the first step and one more important than you think. Maybe at that moment you cannot start the change, but the mentality is one of the factors that makes you achieve your goals, so you must stay faithful to that change and force yourself to start traveling.
Get an extra job if you need more money, look for a job that gives you more vacations if it keeps you too busy, break free of ties and plan months or even years away. The experiences that you will live are inexplicable, because only you will understand them. But seeing an image of wild animals in Kenya is not the same as waking up at dawn and going to see the sunrise with them.
If you are missing something to make the leap, these images will give you the push.
A Sherpa fixes his ropes in the Himalayas
Surfers on the island of Oahu, Hawaii
Kyrgyz girls collecting, Afghanistan
sunrise in kenya
Waking up on the other side of the world with no one you know is an intoxicating feeling. Fear is almost as great as emotion and traveling the Earth without anyone’s help (known, because surely when you set foot in a new place you will make friends quickly) makes you grow, fend for yourself and enjoy your own freedom. Sometimes it even shows you how tied up you were in the past.
Mageni Cave Waterfalls, New Guinea
Above all, traveling will open your eyes to other cultures and lifestyles. We think we understand what it means to be “the other”, but it is not until we put ourselves in their shoes and hear their stories face to face, that we understand the meaning of otherness. Traveling heals feelings of superiority and irrational fears created by imaginary lines called borders.
Hindu woman washes her clothes near Ayodhya, India
Make no mistake, traveling is also taking risks, exposing yourself and being afraid, but facing your fears is what will give you the strength to follow your path and when you return home, understand that the meaning of the trip is not complete until you realize realize the change that took place in you.
Sunrise in Cairo, Egypt
All these photographs are part of a selection by Nationa Geographic that invites people to travel the world and throw off their prejudices.
Penguins in Antarctica
Salt domes in the Kavir desert, Iran
Easter Island, Chile
Fisherman and his son in Kimbe Bay, New Guinea
Mount Cook, New Zealand
Isortoq, Greenland
Explorer in Claustral Canyon, Australia
Diver with tiger shark, Bahamas
Are you ready for the adventure?