Travel magazine article spread

 

"Traveling is no longer a word solely used for exploring the world, instead it is now a stage of life. It’s a journey to explore who we are as a person, although as deep and profound as that sounds it has an element of truth, we spend so much time in education being told what is correct, what is considered wrong and what we should do; that we end up being an assortment of narrow minded students all doing the same as each other. Do we make decisions based on our friends or as long as our future boss would prefer we did? Do I really want that? And am I choosing this to make myself happy or to make someone proud? Are we taking the time to consider what we even want from life anymore or are we all just getting caught up in the rat race; life? Traveling can take you out of your comfort zone, it puts you in an environment that requires you to behave off of your own opinion. I have always heard the phrase ‘going to find myself’ I never knew the real meaning and decided on my own interpretation; “distancing yourself from what you know is common, your friends, family, job and college, these are all distractions and factors that can cloud your opinion, once you have none of these factors to rely on or distract you; you then revert back to your own instinct.” All these components can blur our judgement and we end up just being another sheep in the crowd that just follows the herd, that is life."