Travel Makes You Richer and Wiser – Scientific Research

So here is something to back up our travelling desires now. People who love traveling understands the true value of it. They understand that buying a dream car is not required – its materialistic. Not even a big house, or that expensive Phone or laptop or even jewellery, none of it will give you that true joy, the utter fulfillment that you seek. Here’s what will: according to a recent scientific discovery, it’s rather your journeys and experiences that will give you lasting happiness, and not your material junk.

Here is the science behind it.

1. “We’re the sum total of our experiences”

Your newest  iPhone or that fashionable diamond jewellery won’t give you as much happiness as would traveling to new places, meeting new people, engaging in new adventures, and trying new cuisines. Experience gives more happiness than materialistic things. Think about it.

2. If happiness = traveling, then Money CAN buy happiness!

The memories of that trip you took with your family years ago will always make you smile no matter how old you grow but the excitement of buying things you’ve been dreaming of will fade. So buy happiness from money. It is possible

3. You are where you’ve been, and not what you bought

Traveling defines you. The experiences you indulge in tend to become your identities. People won’t remember you for that fancy car you bought, but for all the places you took off with it!

4. Your adventures will make great travel stories

What kind of stories would you entertain your grand-children with? The fancy lifestyle you had when young won’t excite them much. Narrate to them dramatic tales of the adventures you had, the experiences you got, the risks you took, the fears you had, the discoveries you made, the lessons you learnt along the way…..and they’ll be your fans forever!

5. Traveling enhances our social relationships

You won’t make many friends and contacts sitting at home. Besides, people you meet and relationships you build outside your hometown circle of friends will be rather everlasting, enriching, & give you a fresher perspective on life

6. Facebook Check-in from a posh cafe, or from Koh-Samui? You choose.

You can’t deny this one. Travel photos and check-ins will prove to be a better weapon for showing off and for making your people smoke with jealousy, than posting pictures of you in that pretty bag from LV.

7. Need a break from your hectic work schedule? What better than to take a trip!

Going clubbing with your gang will only make you forget about your angry boss or your annoying ex for the day. Nothing relieves stress as much as traveling. A change of landscapes, weather, and people, can definitely charge up your mind and replenish your soul.

8. Traveling invokes inner wisdom & makes you smarter!

 “Don’t tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you have traveled”. Seeing new cultures and meeting new people will teach you things you never knew about the world.

9. We discover the real us while traveling.

You never really know what you’re capable of and what skills you possess, until you venture out, experience new situations, & face challenges. Successfully trekking miles to a mountaintop, getting stranded in a foreign area & figuring out the way- these will actually strengthen your self-confidence and give you skills to deal with life better, as opposed to your material belongings.

10. Memories stay….forever

The materialistic, short-lived things you buy will leave you once they have served their purpose. The memories you made will accompany you to your grave.

So the next time you feel like showing off by buying something expensive, make sure it’s a plane ticket!.

Koh-samui on my mind, can I see you there next week?