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I’m writing this story while I’m on bus number 68 on Pierrefonds Street in Montreal, Canada. I started dreaming of traveling 3 years ago, I was 19 years old.
I was at the beginning when I talked about travel, all the responses were. Why my son? You are not young, you are not more than 19 years old, you have to focus on your studies only.
But in June, I was about to travel to a European country, but the whole thing failed because of the visa. And the words of frustration and depression began to circulate in my head, and that everything I want will not happen, and that I am not lucky in achieving my dream, the amount of frustration was great, but the frustration was not able to me much because on 01/30/2013 I was at the door of the plane traveling to Istanbul, Turkey. I went to Turkey for a week and I was alone. Not even a friend traveled with me. The happiness I felt this week was almost the joy of a goal in the FIFA World Cup Final.
After this week, I returned home, and I only had the memories and information I had heard or seen with me, but my feeling after this travel did not reach the stage of saturation from travel. It’s only been eight weeks and I’m getting ready to fly another flight.
On April 30, 2013, I was at the door of the plane again, in less than 3 months, but this time it was Bangkok, Thailand. The week ended quickly and I went back to my country telling them as usual, but the worst thing about me was the travel time because one week was not enough to visit as many areas as possible in any city or country. On 7/30/2013, I was at the door of the plane for the third time, and the destination was India, but this time not for a week, but 6 weeks in one of the most beautiful countries in the world. The experience I gained in these weeks I would not have had if I had lived my whole life between home, school, and hanging out with friends, I went to Surat, India.
In India, I met more than 52 people from more than 25 countries around the world. Cultural diversity is enough to teach you things. If you spend your whole life reading books and watching movies of all kinds, you will not understand them. And then I came home again, but this time I saw an improvement because I didn’t talk about the things I saw and gained.
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And only a few months passed, and I started coming for the fourth time, and my friends thought me crazy and wasting money, and I was affected by that a little bit and started working. And I saved my daily expenses, and this time I started spending my money to buy the ticket, food and the rest of the needs… And actually, a year after the first time I traveled, and on 01/30/2014 I was in front of the plane door for the fourth time, and this time it was Saint Petersburg, Russia And it was 6 weeks as well, and I gained a lot of experience because Russia is very different from my homeland, and I came home and this time I could not be silent and talk about what I saw and what I lived in Russia, the madness of traveling would have killed me.
but I was unable to because on 07/22/ 2014 I was in front of the plane door for the fifth time in less than two years, and this time the destination was Canada.
My advice to you is to travel and love to travel; Never be content, always be greedy to gain more, see more, and always get to know more cultures, civilizations, and people as well. Do not reach the point of feeling great and that you have reached a high level that no one has reached, always be greedy to learn more, as I said before, always think that what you saw is less than what you did not see and that it is large to an imaginary and unpredictable degree.
Travel..? Travel is a challenge, not a visa or a ticket, travel is an ambition, travel is an investment in a character, a character that one day will move her country for the better.
