One of my colleague returned from a 10 day trip from East Africa. He was on a Christmas vacation safari trip to Kenya and other countries. He is in late twenties enjoys traveling. He puts up a very good score in his professional life, works hard and once in a six months takes away from work for few days. I noticed this cycle for last 3 years which made me to put him as the man at the moment in this blog.
This scenario is not very normal in Indian Subcontinent compared to western countries, but things are changing slowly here too. More and more youngsters are pulling out from the routine and do what they feel like doing. Traveling allows an individual to see the world from the different perspective, learn different cultures, look different customs, taste different food, see different art, so on and so forth. Most of the times, here we will be running behind the life, first schooling, then college, then job, then family, then kids, then financial and social security, then health, then retirement, lastly thinking of a recreation going around places on tours or pilgrimage. In developed countries people do take break from the routine, take an year off from the studies and travel around, one reason may be no burdens of family, social and financial aspects
But now we are living in a century with a strong heading economy where for the first time in history the per capita income has touched the four digit mark $1000. Growing economy is pushing the demand for houses, vehicles, consumable durables, entertainment and tourism. Tourism plays an important role in the economies of the world. It has grown to such an an extent, that now we are talking about space tourism.
More over traveling for an individual allows him or her to see the world from different eyes and help them to develop as a better person. I would like to thank my colleague for sharing few coins for my collection and wish him he sees lot more world and adds lot more collection to me :). And I also wish every one to do what their heart says than living the life of somebody’s dream, not easy but let us give a try …
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