As I was researching the topic of traveling, I discovered that most individuals experience changes to themselves all from just going out and exploring. Traveling can be experienced when an individual or more goes somewhere on some sort of transportation. Traveling is to explore and venture off into the world, going out of the comfort zone, and seeing what is out there.
Traveling can be for fun, but it can also serve as something that will not only benefit the person itself but others as well. Those can include going into the peace corp and helping the poor. In my research paper, I will be discussing the various benefits of traveling. It will include what attributes the traveler will gain, or what individuals do exactly when helping others in traveling like when being apart of the Peace Corp.
As a traveler myself, I travel to learn about different cultures and expand my horizon. As I do this, it allows me to express my true self wherever I go. Not only that, the traits that I gained throughout my travels, makes me a stronger and better person.
“Traveling invariably leads to your needing to talk to more people — be it flight attendants, the hotel concierge, or a taxi driver in a foreign country. As you get more adept at dealing with strangers, it will become easier to make conversation”(Allyson). It allows the person to build a stronger, outgoing personality that enables them to be more social and gain the confidence to not be afraid of doing something new or being on there own.
“When you travel, you immerse yourself in new landscapes, architecture, and works of art. As they seep into your consciousness, it’ll allow you to take new creative approaches in your own life, whether it comes to gardening, decorating your house, or taking on new challenges in the workplace”(Allyson).
“It found that exposing your brain to new languages, smells, tastes, and sights by living abroad improves creativity”(Winter). People gain insight into the world and its beauties. It grants a new passage in their mind that lets their creativity explore vastly. Not only that, but they also gain an appreciation for the culture they are experiencing and understanding how different countries of the world work.
Their results, which were published in the Journal of Personality, found that traveling does alter your personality for the better in five overarching domains: emotions, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to new experiences”(Winter). People will undergo these things, which benefits the individual as a whole.
Traveling can consist of a person doing short-term and/or long-term global assignments. If a person travels, they are allowing themselves to see what other parts of the world do for a certain thing. For example, many business people will go traveling to get a bigger and better aspect of there company/product and what will bring in money.
Traveling can be a particular assignment for an individual, if they took part in, for example, the Peace Corps. The main motive of the Peace Corps is that it allows individuals from around the world to volunteer in a program that provides social and economic development abroad. Africa has limited supplies in their country, which volunteers then come in to help aid. When one travels, they can experience and see what other countries go through and gain the motivation to join the Peace Corps to continue not only traveling but helping people along their journey.
Traveling can have many negative effects on the body as well. Your diet and exercise are significantly affected by traveling because you are not in your own home eating your specific daily food. Exercise is minimal, depending on your destination.
Another huge factor in traveling is the potential stress it can cause in a human. Traveling can greatly affect a person in many negative ways as well. When traveling, people learn to adjust and adapt on the fly. Not everything will go smoothly during a trip, there is a possibility that many things could go wrong.
However, we develop a stronger adaptiveness quality when things don’t go our way. We learn to adjust and adapt to the change or issue. By frequently learning to adjust and adapt, we won’t react negatively or crack under pressure when something doesn’t go our way.
Traveling can have many positive and negative effects on a person. It can cause people to develop a new perspective of the world, can teach people to learn to adjust and adapt, can affect people’s personalities, and can allow people to experience new culture. However, it can also affect a person in many negative ways, such as additional stress, less exercise, and a different diet.
Overall, traveling can contribute to the development of one’s character in many ways. For my editorial, I mimicked the style of David Brooks, a conservative columnist for the New York Times. David Brooks writes with a specific style. He gives a brief topic sentence by itself a space away from each paragraph, then he continues with a paragraph elaborating on that specific topic sentence. For my editorial, I wrote each introductory and topic sentence by itself, then explained and elaborated on that subject in a paragraph directly below it. This technique that David Brook’s uses allows the reader to follow along easily and understand the message that is being conveyed.
