🌍 Traveling Improves Your Health From cutting down on stress, to lowering your chances of developing a heart disease, the health benefits of traveling are huge. Traveling more is likely to have a tremendous impact on your mental well-being, especially if you're no used to going out of your comfort zone. 🌍 Traveling Lets You Disconnect From Your Daily Life We tend to get so caught up in our daily lives that sometimes, by simply sticking around, we may do ourselves more harm than good. Your boss is taking over your life? Kids are driving you mad? How long do you think you can handle this pressure before you burst and everything falls apart? 🌍 Traveling Makes You Smarter Get used to picking up new words in a different language every time you travel and you will see improvements in your brain capacities. Even more than "just" languages, traveling helps you learn about yourself. You might run into challenging situations where you need to be resourceful and think differently. I'm sure that you will develop a new set of skills that you didn't suspect you had within you. 🌍 Traveling Improves Your Understanding Of Other Cultures Why we travel may differ from one person to another, but people travelling always develop empathy and a deeper understanding of other cultures.Being more understanding and tolerant about a culture different than ours is part of being smarter, but I consider it as a benefits of traveling in itself. 🌍 Traveling Makes You More Interesting I have no doubt that you're quite the conversationalist. Including a few stories from abroad is likely to grant you even more attention. Mentioning something that most people aren't familiar with or bring a new perspective is always a good way to shine in a social situation. No need to write a whole travel essay, just discuss what you've seen and where you've been: people who are accustomed to their daily life will travel with your words. 🌍 Traveling Allows You To Try Amazing Food Speaking of food, I bet you're one hell of a chef and your home meals are delicious. But there is no such thing as trying a typical local dish from another country. Eating local food in a new country is an entirely new experience. All the flavors are different. 🌍 Traveling Makes You Feel Like An Adventurer Despite the fact that the world has never been as well connected as today, there are still places that are little known to the average tourist. Setting up a list of places you want to visit is extremely motivating. You have something tangible to go after. I'm currently working on my own bucket list, and I think I'll never see the end of it, with all these amazing destinations. The benefit of traveling to a new place is that it forces you to face the unknown and think differently. You don't need to go spend a month in the jungle! If you live in a large city, just going on a hike over the weekend will make you feel different. Adventures require novelty, so get out of your comfort zone. It might be scary, but in retrospect, you'll see it as the best decision you ever made! 🌍 Traveling Expands Your (Real) Social Network Believe it or not, social networks was once like a real thing - in real life. Crazy, I know. One of the main reasons why I love traveling is that I believe that establishing connections and building a network abroad is one of the smartest things you can do in today’s world. It is sometimes hard to build long-lasting relationship with the people you meet abroad, but it doesn't mean it's not worth meeting new people! 🌍 Traveling Let you Create Lifetime Memories No matter how insignificant it may seem, the fact that you've had an experience abroad, something that was out of the ordinary, creates a memory that you will remember for a long time. I think that creating those memories is why many people keep traveling. 🌍 Traveling Makes You Love Your Home Even More The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back. 🌍 🌍 🌍 I hope that this travel article makes you want to travel more in 2020. As you travel, you realize that the world is a much better place than what you can see on TV when watching the news. There is a quote by Mark Twain that I love: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.” Have you already visited Ukraine? Is it in your bucket list?