There are many places to go, may sights to see, many experiences to behold; and travel is the simple way of making this happen. Here are 5 little but great things that travel can help you with in life. Whenever you can, travel, because you can.

“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

Travel helps you to break away from your routine life.

Imagine, every day you wake up, bath, go to work, work during the day, knock off, go back home, watch TV and go to bed to repeat the same cycle again on the following day. Life becomes slow, mundane, and less adventurous, because experiences will be limited to what you do daily. Setting aside time to travel means you will be breaking away from that cycle, disrupting it and make life more exciting.

For many people, life is boring because they keep doing the same things, repetition makes things dull over time. So, travel, it makes a huge difference by giving you moments you can always cherish outside the usual and routine.

“Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.”

Travel helps to create new memories and experiences.

What’s the most memorable event of your life? It could be finding love for the first time, a heartbreak, an event, or something else. Travel gives you an opportunity to create more memories by finding out new things in new places, and new experiences as you visit new destinations. Travel is a sure way of making new memories because there is a lot that happens within it; the journey, and the destination, which have power to create lasting memories and transformative impressions on you.

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

Travel helps you to shape and redefine your perspective about life.

When stuck in our own corners, we define everything from our perspective, which is usually narrow and limited. Travelling unlocks the power of the mind, as you meet new people with various perspectives, experiences and backgrounds, new places with different histories and stories, your mind cannot remain the same. Your beliefs are challenged, your opinions are sharpened and sometimes redefined, your views become clearer, and you could find a new way of thinking, develop new perspectives, and oftentimes it gives you a victorious attitude about life.

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” -Gustav Flaubert

Travel helps you unlock inspiration.

Do you have moments when you feel like everything is not working out, and you don’t know how to come up with a solution, let alone make sense of them? Going to interact with new destinations helps to unlock inspiration that may be locked down by the frustrations of life. Sometimes it’s the sight of a bird, a plant, a flow of water, wildlife, the breeze or the sunset which just gets you jumping, feeling a new sense of optimism and creativity.

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

Travel is a way of entertaining yourself.

We all want to be happy and to do so we find ourselves ways to keep us entertained. The good thing about travel is that you can pack your experience and fill it with all sorts of things; games, food, music, dance, art etc. Travel is entertaining and is a wonderful way of keeping yourself excited. Travel can be a great alternative to clubbing, movies and other common forms of entertainment.

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” -Roy M. Goodman

The best travels in life are those where you don’t know what you would meet on the way and at my destination, where each moment that passes by is a unique experience, and when you get there, you realize that there’s so much you don’t know and you are yet to learn so much more new things, so much you haven’t seen, so much that awaits you, and so much that you can do for yourself, others and the world at large.

If you ever get an opportunity to travel, don’t event let it pass you. Chances are that you will get it, what will you make of it?