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As soon as I came out of a small shop that day, I heard the proprietress whispering behind me: “I really don’t understand the point of coming out to play alone.”
Her companion immediately answered, “If I wouldn’t go out alone, I couldn’t even eat well.”
When traveling alone, you often encounter such dilemmas, especially when eating-these two proprietresses are right.
If two people are traveling, you can order a few more dishes to try; But if there is only one person, ordering one or two dishes is enough, and it will be a waste if you can’t finish them.
If you want to taste more, it may be regarded as “too extravagant”.
So, what’s the fun of traveling alone?
I often go out alone. Despite all the inconveniences of traveling alone, in my heart, there is always a big difference between traveling alone and traveling together.
If your itinerary is more enjoyable, it may be more appropriate for many people to travel together. Because when traveling alone, you have to solve any problems by yourself.
But it’s different when there are many people. Take the most common and basic example: What should you do if you want to go to the bathroom when you are alone?
When I first went out alone, I didn’t even dare to drink more water, for fear that it would be inconvenient to go to the toilet outside.
Especially in crowded places such as railway stations and bus stations, no one helps to take care of luggage.
At this time, you can either find a random passerby who seems trustworthy to help, or you can only drag your luggage into the bathroom.
Going to the toilet alone is also in a hurry, and he doesn’t dare to take it slowly.
When you find your way outside, if you don’t know how to read maps, it’s easier to feel at a loss. No one has any friends to discuss. What should I do?
The best thing about traveling with friends is that everything is negotiated and calculated. Two people always have two ideas. As the saying goes, “Three stooges are the best than Zhuge Liang.”
After talking about a person’s embarrassment, we should also talk about the advantages of traveling alone. After all, many times, I’d rather go out by myself than discuss the itinerary with others in advance.
The best thing about going out alone is flexibility-you can change your destination and route at any time, without consulting with others.
But if you are with friends, you may be embarrassed to change your mind temporarily. After all, it has been agreed in advance.
Perhaps the greatest significance of a person’s travel lies in the unexpected encounter on the road-this is the most surprise you can encounter during the journey.
What you meet may be a person or a piece of scenery, but these are your unique witnesses.
Traveling is often “seeing”, but traveling alone is more often “discovering”.
For example, if you have never tried to travel alone, you may mistakenly think that you can’t live alone.
Traveling alone will break many of the restrictions you set for yourself before, because the process of traveling alone is both a process of getting out and a process of finding solutions.
Finding the right path on the journey is an obvious example-you will add more confidence to yourself because you succeed again and again.
Traveling alone is an opportunity to discover your potential and the possibility of truly connecting you with the world. It breaks the limits of individual thoughts and horizons.
When traveling with friends, we are always talking to the people around us and never feel lonely; But when we travel alone, we always listen to our inner voice, and see the inner child in thinking and asking ourselves again and again.
“What’s the fun of traveling alone?” Perhaps the most needed answer is not travelers who travel alone, but those who have never tried it.
