I can’t just pick one border that the writers have
identified. I think that there are two huge boundaries that our writers have
come across, which I think will play a role not only in my travels, but also in
my day-to-day life. These borders are the physical and mental borders. I
believe that these two borders transcend from travel to influence your life
after travel. A true traveler cannot have one without the other.
Obviously, a physical border is much easier to identify.
This type of border is a geographical one. Once you decide to move from your
own way of life and enter a new region, you have crossed a physical border.
This physical border can easily be achieved. One doesn’t even need to leave his
or her country, state, or town to accomplish this border. I believe that
physical borders are just as important as any other. Even if the difficulty of
this crossing is simple, it still very much counts. Finding the courage to
leave the area one has come accustomed to is often the biggest obstacle.
I believe that I have found the courage to live outside the
norm and experience new physical borders. I believe physical borders play a
large part in my personal explorations. I believe in breaking out of the
ritualistic cycle of life and jumping the physical borders that so tightly
constrain us. Getting on an airplane fills me with such great excitement. I
love sitting in the window seat and watching all the borders I am flying over.
It is beautiful to see all the colors that paint the earth, each color so
unique to each area and the border that it makes up.
As for the mental borders, I personally find these the most
groundbreaking and meaningful to myself, and quite possibly the most important
border personally. The molding of the mind is one of the most beneficial
factors to travel. One’s outlook on life after travel is amazing changed. I
have never seen the world in such color, before traveling. The sense of
humanity along the way is empowering. The colors, scents, people, and images
are forever engrained in my mind. Every memory awakes a new reality of love,
life, and happiness.
However, leaving both these borders open for interpretation
may leave the traveler with the most well rounded adventure he or she may ever
take.
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