10 Ways Travel Will Disrupt Your Peace – And Why That’s Exactly What You Need
Peace is often a sense of calm: a schedule, a home or a plan. What if that version of peace is comforting, but also keeps you from growing? Travel can disrupt this stability, but in ways that can feel chaotic, unsettling, and that’s really just what we need for personal growth. Going forward, it’s not always the peace that comes from uncluttered living that grooms us for growth, it’s the times when the cracks in our armor force us to adapt, reflect and morph that put us on an accelerated path of changing towards a better version of ourselves.
The journey of the unknown things will and can challenge you. These are moments where you’re uncomfortable as all hell, but these are moments where disruption is a catalyst for change, because at this point you can finally see yourself and the world through a different lens. Wanting to know why travel ‘feels’ so ‘stirred’? Here are some reasons it shatters your peace and it’s something to be celebrated.
You Lose Control of the Plan
At home, you might have everything in order: a well planned schedule, routines that provide structure, and predictable outcomes. Travel tends to laugh in the face of your meticulously prepared arrangements — but it does get all that laughter out of its system. Your itinerary can go out the window if you miss your flights, if the weather changes at the last minute or if attractions are closed. Certainly, this loss of control is frustrating, but it forces you to adapt, to live more spontaneously, and to learn that life’s best moments often occur when you just let go of the plan.
You Have to Face Your Fears
Fear of flying, getting lost, or encountering cultures you don’t know are just a few examples of the things that travel makes you confront, head on. Yet—these fears can become an attack upon your peace of mind, but approaching them directly can yield the type of breakthroughs that can change your life. When you discover that most of your fears are conquerable, you will see that you have developed a new found courage which will penetrate into other areas of your everyday lives.
Your Comfort Zone Shrinks
You know where to go, what to eat and how to communicate at home. Typically, travel strips you of these comforts, forcing you to choose at random a temptation (travel) over the other to endure foreign language, foreign food and different social norms. It’s unsettling but it’s outside of our comfort zone that growth happens. It makes you develop resilience and…adaptability because it makes you stretch your boundaries.
The Assumptions Are Challenged
We all have assumptions about the world, many of which are imaginary to daily life. Travel forces you out of your assumptions to see new ways of living and perspectives. Those experiences can shake your view of the world and your place in it, whether you’re exposed to a culture that does things differently or you’re deriving historical facts from a different perspective.
Delays and Disruptions Come into Effect
When you’re on the road, patience is tested. Trains are late, flights are canceled and everything falls apart. Stressful, these moments can ruin your peace of mind. Yes, they will make you hang around even when it’s not something you would rather be doing, but they will also teach you patience and flexibility, and that the journey is as important as the destination.
You Have to Rely on Strangers
Most of the time you can get through life at home without needing much from other people, but when you travel you find yourself in situations where you have to rely on strangers to help you. Asking for directions, figuring out public transport, or getting the low down on local customs can make you feel slightly less independent than you’d like. But they also invite you to be human in ways you may never be otherwise.
Your Identity Feels Shaky
Your identity can feel fluid when you’re in a new country where no one knows you. You are no longer in a role, with a routine or set of expectations that define you back home. It makes you grapple; but it also makes you free to try out new facets of you that have been buried under the labels and expectations that usually run your life.
You Come across Unexpected Emotional Reactions
Emotions you didn’t know you had tend to show up when you travel. A sense of awe at a beautiful landscape or frustration over cultural differences need not catch you unaware from time to time. They also ask you to process feelings you may have buried under the daily grind of life. This is why to travel is an emotional reset, and it get us closer to ourselves.
You Feel Lonely
If you travel alone, you’ll know that being alone in an unknown place breaks your peace of mind. At first they might be difficult to sit with, but they also force you to be present and to reflect and discover yourself deeply. In these moments you may be clear about your life, what you want, what is truly important to you.
Peace Isn’t a Place; You Realize That
Travel is one of the biggest lessons that teaches that peace has nothing to do with a particular place or situation. In a tropical paradise, you’d expect to find peace, but your inner turmoil went with you. Also, you might feel calm amidst the most chaotic city. Travel disrupts the assumption that peace is an external thing and helps you realize that it’s something you make internally, no matter where you are.
Disclaimer: This list is solely the author’s opinion based on research and publicly available information.
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