“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain
Its a year after pandemic cov19 and Malaysia announced LOCK-DOWN and not allowed travel overseas. Honestly, traveling is like flirting with life and without travel i would have a wound up a little ignorant of my boyfriend, which was not my idea of good life. Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends and the mind can never break off from the journey. I misses running to the departure gate at the airports, planning for ended my ASIA bucket lists places where i should travel and longing for best experience in the place we never been before. What a bored world!!! I’m stroll down a few article in google and i found this which according to psychologist.
INSIDE A TRAVELER’S MIND — (click for further reading >> https://thepointsguy.com/guide/psychology-why-we-miss-travel/)
“To understand why people like to travel, you have to consider the psychological needs that travel meets,” said Seth Meyers, Psy.D., a licensed clinical psychologist, television contributor and writer based in Los Angeles. “At [its] root, travel is a psychologically stimulating activity on a physical, visual and social level. Travel offers a break from the monotony of daily routines and often pulls people out of their comfort zone to the point that they often try new or unusual activities they wouldn’t be inclined to try from … their home base.”
Michael Brein, Ph.D., a social psychologist and author with a specialty in travel, points to Maslow’s pyramid, which illustrates the hierarchy of human needs. Once your basic physiological and safety needs are satisfied, you can begin ascending the pyramid. You fulfill your psychological desire for belonging and love; then develop your self-esteem; and ultimately reach self-actualization, way at the top of the pyramid.
If you’re a frequent flyer, you may be satisfying your psychological needs, growing your confidence and achieving self-actualization all through the act of travel.
“[Travel is] so stimulating and memorable,” Brein said. “We remember our connections with people more than anything else. [And] it happens so fast and furiously. We get rewarded [with] self-esteem and self-confidence. Travel puts you in a situation where new stimuli and novelty is coming at you so fast, and the more that it engulfs you and you incorporate it [in your life], the more you grow as a person.”
Travel becomes not just the way we derive satisfaction, but the lens through which others see us and, ultimately, how we see ourselves.
“For men and women who travel extensively for work,” Meyers said, “the travel — or the constant sense of being in motion — becomes a part of their identity.”
It’s a concept Sethi describes with the language of a frequent flyer.
“The question people ask [me] is, ‘Where are you in the world right now?’” she explained. “They know this is who I am. I am the Executive Platinum status, Diamond Medallion status … [Travel] is a central part of how I see myself and how other people see me … I’m trying to reconcile how I relate to myself when I’m not out in the world, being fed by the world … How do I orient myself at all?”