Travel! Enlighten yourself...

There is an age old story which my grandma used to narrate to me about a little frog, which lived in a well. This well was its habitat; the walls of the well were the frog’s world, and the little blue above peeping through the depths of the well was its only piece of sky. This was the frog’s universe; it could never see beyond it, because the walls of the well were too high.

One day, the area got flooded with water after incessant rain. The water inside the well also rose up, till it came to the well’s mouth. And the frog came out of its little world; and saw what it had never seen or imagined before. It was an entirely different world that the frog had been transferred to. A world where there were no walls; a world where there was ample sunlight. There was ample ground to jump around; and there were ample other frogs to meet and socialize. The frog was delighted to come out of its earlier confined world; this world was free; it was calling the frog to explore its stretching miles.

This story seems so relevant when you think about it in the context of those people who never travel out? Although, I agree that this frog had no TV or Internet surfing facility inside the well to keep it up to date with the entire world. But seeing something through transmitted signals and seeing with naked eye is altogether different. A person has to be there in all his 5 senses to really experience the exact feel of that place.

Traveling does exactly the same. It brings you face to face with the real thing in flesh and blood; not in virtual or a make-believe world. Travel can soak you knee-deep in the muddied waters of a stream; it can bring eye-popping phenomenon right in front of your eyes; it can make you walk right besides the clouds on a freezing hill town; it can make strangers look back with the warmest of affection in their eyes.

Traveling is great, because it is not just about you exploring the world; but also about the world exploring in you.

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