One fine day, you find yourself in a different place. All you have is a map and some belongings. So, you have no other choice but to explore!
Yes, this is how solo travelling feels at times. Sometimes you will feel enthralling by everything new and different. But other times you just feel like crawling back to your cozy bed at home.
If you are travelling solo, you want it. You plan for yourself to experience the world alone. You are looking forward to an introspective voyage. And I’m pretty sure that you are enjoying it. But what is it like to travel alone when you are in a relationship or have some big or small responsibilities back at home?
Let us not lie here.
It causes a bit of tension and anxiety to face uncertainty alone. Especially, when you are in a strange land surrounded by strangers. But the good news is it won’t stay longer. You will soon become familiar with the place and people and you will start enjoying the solitude with pride of conquering fear alone!
When you plan a solo trip, it gives you an opportunity to escape the mundane responsibilities for a while. But here it is, you can’t completely escape it. Constant phone calls and assuring things are going fine without you back at home is inevitably following you.
Imagine you are travelling through some breathtaking sites and your soul is experiencing a euphoria!
Usually, you feel the urge to share this experience with someone you are close to. But you come back to the realization that this moment is for you and you only. While you may encounter many such moments of soul elevation and sometimes tensions and confusions, you have to take comfort on your shoulders even though you feel vulnerable. I assure you though, whatever it is that you feel, you will feel great for witnessing it all alone.
Did you happen to be an introvert who is travelling solo?
You were probably confined to the comforts of your partner and home. But trust me, you will be surprised by seeing yourself interacting with many people, especially locals. It is a wonderful feeling talking to local people and you can be whoever you want to be!
While you may have many instances where you badly crave for your partner, especially when loneliness takes its toll on you, you happen to gain some emotional strength during this period. You become your caretaker and may even start talking to yourself and lead to some self-realization, which is essential in today’s world.
Imagine waking up in a new place, new people, language culture and what not! You are no longer in the cage of your pasts and you can become your true self. You will not behave in a certain manner when you are with your acquaintance without the fear of being getting judge. Being solo traveler, allows a little more room to grow and undergo some thrilling experiences.
It is a fact universally acknowledged that you take something or someone you are close to for granted and boredom hits you while undertaking the same responsibilities. Therefore it becomes necessary to keep the zest of it never fading. You will begin to value your partner and other responsibilities even more which is excellent!
I know how it feels to face stressing out situations. You might come across varieties of such situations throughout travelling solo. Figuring out routes and directions, handling money, interacting with all kinds of people, it is for sure a harrowing experience at times. But we all know that a silent sea never made a skilled sailor. And the sailor here is alone. You may find yourself with terrible situations holding back your tears. But it will come out later as happy years when you feel the sense of achievement from Solo traveling.
We live in a world of sacrifices where we learn that one thing has to be sacrificed for maintaining another. While this notion is far from true, solo travelling makes you realize that we can live up to our dreams and support each other without sacrificing. It only makes the relationship stronger and helps to carry out our responsibilities better.
There is a misconception that you are suppose to do everything together with your partner. What we forget is that it is just an idea or way the society works. It is not a fix rule to be the same way always.
Travelling solo helps remove the unnecessary dependence on your partner.
No individual is the same. While travelling solo helps you travel in your way, you avoid conflict of interests which occur while travelling with your partner.
While we grow out of our comfort zones and gain more self-esteem, it not only makes us admirable, we tend to change the normal course of actions and sow the seed for a new path altogether!
