Costs, Expenses vs Happiness, Ephiphanies of Travel

This next blog covers a some of the "detrimental" factors such as costs and expenses of leaving your home for a trip versus the benefits such as happiness, epiphanies and gains.

Cons:

• You will spend money for the flight, room and board and a few/many fun activities. (Note, they are FUN and that factor lessens the "con" factor right there!)
• You may miss out on a few TV shows that you loooove.
• You will spend time away from your work, family (maybe, maybe not), friends, etc.
• You may have to break a few unimportant previous engagements such as a dinner party at your associate's home.
  
• Any more? You will have to fill in the blanks.

Pros:

• You will have FUN!
• You will experience further cultures you may have never experienced before.
• You will make many new lifetime friends (providing that you are not anti-social and anybody who reads this blog probably isn't)
• You will lose much stress and probably have the great experience of "eustress" defined here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustress
• You may find that you love the place you are visiting much more than your current home and gain new residence.
• You may find that your source of income was causing the most stress and coincidentally you find a new source of income whatever it may be.
  
• If you are single you could find "The One" *wink wink*
• You will realize that henceforth, travel and trips to experience the world are totally worth the risks and your risk/benefit ratio is way out of balance by the benefits.

Really, what is the worst that could happen? Death? Nah. . . Bankruptcy? I'm 99% sure that won't occur and even if it does, many people do go bankrupt and learn many important lessons from it that they wouldn't have before and pull themselves up by the bootstraps to once more regain financial stability.

If you take a step back, and calculate all of this I'm sure that in under 30 seconds you will agree with me. . .you had better get out of your office/home and travel!!!

Please, reflect upon your life and see if a trip would be valuable. Even if it is only for 4 weeks, you can benefit immensely. 2-3 weeks can be a pretty week trip but if that's all you can afford whether due to time or money, try to make the most of it and do things you typically wouldn't think twice of accomplishing e.g. visit the Congo, skydive in Brazil, club in Ibiza, etc.

Well, that gives you some insight into why you should get out and travel. But of course, even with all of the proof indicating to you that you should get the heck out, you still must decide to do it, plan it out just a tiny bit and get going!

I wish you good luck and let me know, what are your pros and cons of travel? What makes you hesitate to travel and is it really worth it? Just consider the absolute worst-case scenario and then the realistic opportunities and finally, the best-case scenario. I'm sure with those considerations in place, you will be able to make a sensible decision.

Signin' out!
Daniel A