ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF TRAVELING ALONE

Viajar solo



What do you think of traveling alone? Have they ever done it? What has been your experience? Have they done it on purpose or because there was no other choice?
According to the Statista portal, in 2015, 8% of European young people between 15 and 24 years old traveled alone during their main holidays, the figure rising to 11% among those over 55 years old. Another survey conducted by TripAdvisor, this time around the world, indicated that 17% of respondents were interested in traveling alone for the first time, and the figure increased to 25% among Millennials.


1. Free will
Undoubtedly, the greatest advantage of traveling alone is the freedom to do what you really want. Roam free like the wind. See this neighborhood but skip that museum, climb that monument or stop walking and appreciate the sights, lose yourself on purpose, wander aimlessly, eat when you want without paying attention to anyone's eating habits Is there a happier way to travel?
However, you have to be biblical -the dates suggest this- to remember that free will forces you to assume the consequences of your own decisions. That is, when you really get lost, there is no one to rescue you; and when you return from a trip and your friends and acquaintances examine you about what you saw or not (because they do, they examine you) you will have to justify yourself by saying that you are a traveler and not a tourist.

2. "I just can not, with friends yes"
As self-sufficient as we create ourselves, there are things you can not do alone. It's like swimming and storing clothes, but literally, or have you never gone back into the sea to keep track of the clothes you left on the beach? Well, it also happens with your luggage when you want to go to the bathroom in airports and stations.
During the trips mishaps arise, it is inevitable, it can be a problem in the customs, with the credit card, or with the digestive system ... If you do not occur any more cases, ask your mother all the misfortunes that can happen to her head while you are traveling. You can-I think so, for example-break your foot on an island in Thailand and need help even to leave the hotel room, let alone move to an airport. In all these cases, a fellow traveler is the closest thing to the best roadside assistance service.

3. Memories
I have a travel companion who is able to recall with great detail what itinerary we did every day of each trip. It's like having a prompter, a living diary, a "you have memories on Facebook to remember" personified that helps you relive every place visited and event lived.
On the contrary, of the trips that I have made alone, I only remember vaguely some landscapes and anecdotes. The rest is in those photos that we never see again when traveling. The only advantage would be the possibility of inventing one's own memories, like those stories that are transformed over time because there is no one to contrast them, but I think I do not have that much imagination.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Image
TRAVELLING ADICTION, DOES IT REALLY EXIST ?    It is possible to find on many internet portals some signs to know if you suffer addiction to travel. Some of these portals even refer to this concept as pathological and as an uncontrollable need to flee from the place where the person lives. Some of these websites even use the term travel addiction with the name of "dromomania". However, scientific studies seem to indicate that travel is intimately related to happiness, as it helps us to have pleasant memories and to live new and exciting experiences.       So, does the addiction to travel really exist? Is travel addiction the same as dromomania? Dromomania: what is it?    Some people confuse the addiction to travel with dromomania, but nothing has to do with these two concepts. Being addicted to travelling, like any addiction, would have more to do with the excessive stimulation of the area of the reinforcement and, therefore, th...
Read more
Image
5  PSYCHOLOGICAL BENEFITS OF TRAVELLING:    Before going any further, a study that was published in "the Journal of Positive Psychology" discovered that the feeling of happiness is found in the record of memories and experiences relevant to us, and whose maximum expression is travel. 1. Reduce stress and anxiety    Stress is the pandemic of the nineteenth century in Western countries. The demands of work, the rush and the hectic pace of life cause us a latent discomfort that, sooner or later, manifests itself through stress pictures. We can not stop thinking about our obligations, at the meetings of tomorrow or in the labor uncertainty that haunts us, and we forget to enjoy the present and the small pleasures of life.    However, when we embark on a trip, we disconnect from all these daily anxieties and focus on living in the present, relaxing in the pool, visiting paradisiacal beaches, moving with the beauty of the landscapes ... We focus on t...
Read more