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Home may be where the heart is, but it certainly isn’t where it resides when you have a serious case of wanderlust. Few dreams are more pervasive around the globe than traveling the world; the benefits of doing so are just as widespread.

Discover Yourself

Traveling is about finding new places, but it’s also about finding yourself. Being able to handle the rigors of travel can be a great way to boost your confidence. Students often travel for gap years to get some life experience and cultural seasoning before they head to university.

Introduce Variety

Doing the same thing every day is incredibly boring. Even if you’re someone who prefers the security of a solid routine, shaking things up can be important for your focus and mental health. When you do the same thing day in and day out, it can cause things to blur together in your mind, causing you to lose your focus and ability to think creatively. Travel can help you rekindle that spark of creativity by reintroducing you to the concept of variety.

Learn About New Cultures

While the Internet has brought us closer together than ever before, that hasn’t always come with empathy and understanding, to put it mildly. We live in a world where a lot of things are said about a lot of people from cultures not our own. Travel can be an antidote to xenophobia by enabling you to see how other cultures are different from your own – how they’re just like you.

Learn Languages

Parles français? Sprechen sie Deutsch? Hablas español?

If you don’t, then traveling can be a great way to become exposed to new languages for the first time.

If you do speak a language or are trying to improve your skills, then traveling to a country where that’s the native language can be a great way to immerse yourself in the language and culture.

Travel has long been a way of reinvigorating oneself by allowing you to discover the world and rediscover yourself, and that remains true today.