Traveling is rooted in man’s nature. The instinct of roaming about, is rooted in man’s nature. Traveling has, therefore been popular with him from them immemorial. It is the romance of seeing the unseen knowing the unknown and unveiling the shrouds of mystery. But it is no entirely driven by a blind urge that man has keen traveling year after year.
He has also found it useful-immensely beneficial. One of its
leading benefits is that it serves as a great teacher. It educates all- the
ignorant and the erudite alike even those who may have the pride to think they
have nothing more to learn. The knowledge we acquire in the colleges and
universities in mainly bookish in nature. It may add to our learning without
enhancing our real sagacity. The bulk of theoretical studies that have no
practical application in our day- to-day life may as well be regarded as a
sterile pace of earth unproductive and useless. The essential link between scholastic
knowledge and the actual affairs of life can be provided by the realistic
understanding of the world derived through traveling.
Traveling across distant countries expands the mental
horizon of man. Fanaticism, prejudices, intolerance and such other vices are
cured and complexes removed when a man comes into contact with people from
different places. Books only convey theoretical information’s on these things.
It is traveling that effects real exchange between nation and nation, to the
benefit of the whole world. In these days of international tension, traveling
can help to bring about cordiality and harmony between hostile nations. When we
travel through counties, we come to know that people in general all over the
world want peace and amity. That strengthens our own hope of peace and removes
the fear of a third. World war, Likewise, traveling can bring different
countries closer and closer and establish better economic co-operation among
them for their mutual benefit. A long stay at one place brings monotony and
stagnation to our life. Change and variety is the spice of life. This is no
mere platitude but most palpably true. A change of atmosphere from the plains
to the hills, from moist to dry climate, brings about such a perceptible
improvement in the state of our mental and physical health that doctors
prescribe change of eyes feast on the gorgeous beauties of Nature, the rocking
waves of the blue oceans, the proud pinnacles of mountains, the mysterious
wilderness of the flamboyant flower-decked valleys, our hearts swell with
ecstasy. Our minds shed all the narrowness and unwholesome tendencies at the
sight of Natures magnificence. Our soul breaks its bondage and soars high in
quest of the real values of life. 
A man never knows his own native land completely till he has
gone out of it to some other country. Only a rational comparison with other
countries can specify vividly the true character the merits and drawbacks of
our own motherland. An awareness of our defects of the East, have learn from
traveling in the western countries how they enjoy their liberties and is charge
their responsibilities. This has been a greater teacher than hundreds of
sermons on civic rights and duties.
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