There is this quote by travel blogger Matthew Karsten, which reads: “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” The quote was written so that people take inspiration and start traveling and exploring various places in their lives.
So, let us understand the quote and its meaning better. Travel is a word that excites some people and for some people, it brings stress and tension. Going from one place to another is like learning something new every day. Say for example if you are someone who is living in Mumbai or Mumbai suburbs, you can know how lakhs of people used to travel from Central to Western to Harbour railway lines for work purposes or study reasons during the pre-coronavirus times.
Mumbai can be said to be opened up during the covid times and even after the pandemic times only when the trains resume their operations at a full-fledged level. So the idea of the travel of lakhs of people every day is to make a living or learn something for advancing their job prospects. So, in a way, people travel in trains or buses or autos by paying a fee, which cannot be treated as “expenses” but “investment”. Let us understand how.
Now if you are an explorer and love adventure and want to know the why behind the architecture or landscape of different places, visiting those places physically will only give you that feel and understanding of how beautiful some places are created by artisans, craftsmen, engineers in those eras and even in these times. The “knowledge” that you get by practically going to that place is like an investment of an experience that you gain which helps you differentiate between the good, bad, and the best when it comes to places.
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Say, for example, everyone says the Taj Mahal is a beautiful place but the reason they say so is that they have experienced the beauty and wonder in the place that has been built years ago as a promise of love. The experience of this beauty is what gets conveyed when one visits the place and that is why the expense of traveling to that place becomes an investment in yourself to gain that understanding and experience.
