How Traveling Alone Empowers You

Traveling is a great opportunity, especially when you travel alone. Based on experience, traveling alone is better when you’re sad and feeling down. Way back 2017, I was depressed again. I thought of another way to cope up with what I’m feeling instead of doing the same mistake I did last time, like sitting isolated in my room while crying and hurting myself. I didn’t want to be that sad again.

I live in the provincial part of my country so going to the capital takes hours including traffic. But that didn’t stop me, I went to google to know how to get to the place I wanted to go, what bus to take, the landmarks and more. The thought scared me a bit because it was my first time, never in my life I had commuted on my own even to places near where I live. But like the saying goes “If the thought scares you, it means it’s worth it”

Here are 3 reasons why traveling alone empowers you (based on what I felt that time)

1. You’ll feel SOOO Independent

   When you go places alone, you have nothing and no one to depend on. Its just you and you and you. You’re in charge of your own food, money, where you’ll go, how you’ll get home and what to do when you get lost. You are the boss of your own time. Independent means standing on your own feet, nevertheless, traveling requires you to believe in yourself and stand on your own while on your own.

   

   One of the vandals I saw at the city

2. You’ll Feel More Open

   Traveling makes you open to new things. It encourages you to do things you haven’t done before to places you’ve never been to. As for myself, I have never traveled alone and this opportunity made me try new things. I felt like I was finally out of the bubble I was once inside of. It empowered me to be more open to things in life.

   

   It was a bummer that I didn’t had enough money to ride this 😦

3. The Sense of Completeness and Happiness

   Like I said earlier, I was sad at the time I thought of going to the city. The thought of traveling to a distant place by myself scares me because I wasn’t used to or I NEVER traveled alone my whole life. And I was only 17 that time (from where I live that’s a young age to be going to a place by yourself).

   As the bus was leaving my heart was pounding and all my doubts vanished. All I could think of is “This is it” I was finally going to far place by myself. I felt happy like I wasn’t even sad that day, I even forget that sadness was the reason I was doing this and why I was this happy.

   I was so proud of myself that day, and when I finally arrived at the city and got off the bus. I was quite teary eyed because “I’m finally here, I made it” It was like reaching the end of a race you spent years of running at. But it was not the end,it was the first race out of a thousand more.

   In conclusion, I recommend you to travel alone especially when you’re sad. But remember also to be safe while traveling, It really gives you a feeling you’ve lost when you’re sad. It makes you happy and it fuels your desire to travel more, to discover cultures and meet people.

   It makes you stronger,independent and happy. More Travels to come! 🙂