Meaning Of Travel

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A person who keeps reading books, surfing the Internet, writing something continuously and sleep fitfully at night or cannot concentrate on tasks very well due to great expectations is a person who is looking forward to his or her travel. Travel is the activity of traveling, and if someone travels, he or she goes from one place to another, often to a place that is far away, according to dictionaries. This is the most common meaning of travel and of course, this is definitely true. However, it is not a sufficient meaning for a word like travel. Travel has profounder meanings, not only being just a ‘movement’. The greater part of people thinks travel as a fairy tale or a fantasy. They believe that there will be always brilliant, astonishing things to see, hear and feel when they go travel but unfortunately, it is not 100% true. In reality, travel is a thing that causes a confliction among close persons, make people feel discomfort and lead people to be envious, feel a sense of inferiority - all of which are attributes that ordinary people think that those are completely nothing to do with travel. …show more content…

It makes people aware and feel many different things that couldn’t be recognized when they were living in repeated, typical lives. Some of the things are envy and a sense of inferiority. It tends to be limited to people living in western part of the world, anyway, most foreigners have very long legs, a high nose, huge eyes and a white skin – which are the ideal elements of beauty that most people around the world would agree. Seeing those people consistently makes travelers envious of them and the feeling of envy usually verges into inferiority complex. Europeans have superior physical conditions compared to most of Asians and they can enjoy seeing the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, and London Bridge whenever they want to. They see the famous landmarks every morning when they go to their workplaces or schools. It is absolutely different contrary to realities for people living in continents far away from things like that. They must spend exorbitant money and a great deal of time to just see the structures standing in other countries. This kind of difference makes people ask themselves questions like ‘why am I living in Asia, not in Europe?’, ‘why am I so short and ugly?’, ‘how can I be like them?’, or ‘I am a very unfortunate man not living in here, I do not want to go back!’ Appreciations and satisfactions of their lives are utterly obliterated by stupid questions affected by things they saw when they were traveling. Generally people say that

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