Travel and Photography | Why Travel?

© 2012 Wazari Wazir | The Photographer at Sarangkot Pokhara During Sunrise

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

– Jawaharal Nehru – 

“We Travel, initially, to Lose ourselves; and we travel, next to Find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.” 

– Pico Iyer –

Why Travel? People travel for variety of reasons. You can find hundreds of a reason to travel or hundreds of a reason not to travel, anyway, those who like travel the world, most of the times  don’t need any reason at all, they just go. Instead of thinking why they should travel, they just bought a ticket and just go.

This world is a beautiful place, some people who have never have a chance to get out of their country may think that it is dangerous out there. It depends, no matter how dangerous some place or country are, I truly believe, that there are some peace in them, I believe there are a paradise somewhere in the country. Afghanistan, Iraq, may appear to be dangerous to some people but actually they are a beautiful country, Kashmir may ring “danger” to some people but actually it is one of the most beautiful place that I’ve been to and the people there are quite nice and friendly.

We should never judge any country on whether they are safe of dangerous based on what we saw on the news, we should know that, “bad” news always good news to some news agency. Take a look on a brighter side. There are a lot more good friendly people in this world than a bad guy.

Some people might say, why bother traveling, when we can see all of the beautiful things that the world has to offer, right in front of our computer screen or right in front of our TV screen. Yes it’s true but it will never be the same, for me, I don’t want to spend the rest of my life looking at the “world” through a computer screen. What we saw on a computer screen is just a fraction of a real life. It was shared from the perspective of those who took it.

Don’t waste too much of your limited times on earth looking for an answer why you should travel, instead, just  bought a ticket to your preferred destination that you have always dream to, and you will find the answer. I’ve never met anyone who have travel once and said to me, “enough!, I will never travel again”. Maybe they won’t travel to the same destination again or period but definitely they won’t stop traveling to other places.

Some people say that they don’t have the money to travel. I think it is a lame excuse, if you do love something, you will definitely find a thousand ways on how to reach your dream, unless you are crazy or have some kind of mental disorder who can’t think straight, but since you are reading this far, I think you are “normal” person who can think for yourself.