Traveling
is something that doesn’t need to be far away, you can do this even in your own
village. Traveling isn’t what we see everywhere on Instagram, blogs, tumblr and
so on… Let me show you how you can travel without going really far away from
home!
Out of all the things we talk about on this
topic, this is my ultimate favorite to give yourself the ultimate self-care you
can have. I don’t really know why… or maybe I do actually, you are exploring
new places, and when you are doing that I feel like you are doing the same
thing with yourself. You Are Exploring Yourself. Well, we all know that you
don’t need to travel to explore yourself but for me this is just an amazing way
to do so.
Everyone
thinks that traveling is going to a place far away from home, to a new country
for example, but I don’t believe so. Traveling, for me, starts the moment you
go outside and start to see the world in a way you haven’t before. The moment
you decide to start and explore the world I will suggest you to start with you
garden, or a natural park nearby, and start by seeing everything that you never
really noticed before, like the little flowers on the ground, the birds, the
grass, the little animals in the grass, the sky, the trees… Do you see how
beautiful these things actually are? They are all in perfect balance with each
other, and you are part of it. You breath the oxygen in that the trees give
you… when a bird die, the little animals in the earth eat it, but the bird eat
those animals too… it’s the circle of life as a matter of fact.
But you can also start with your town, your village… be a tourist in your own town! Search for places you haven’t seen, maybe you walk past a place every day and you don’t really focus on your surroundings, well great, start walking there and see what surrounds you. See how high these buildings really are. Look at your town as if it is the first time you walk there!
You can try and plan a day out where you start traveling in your car or on a bike, searching for a place that can become your escape place, a place where you can hide yourself from the world and come back to the person you really are, a relaxed person who exactly knows what he/she wants.
When you go shopping for example you can do exactly the same as I said before. It is all about noticing what surrounds you and seeing the beauty in it. Feel the material the clothes are made of, how your salad taste and your drink, the way your friend talks and move. Traveling, to me, is seeing a place in a way you never have before.
But you can also start with your town, your village… be a tourist in your own town! Search for places you haven’t seen, maybe you walk past a place every day and you don’t really focus on your surroundings, well great, start walking there and see what surrounds you. See how high these buildings really are. Look at your town as if it is the first time you walk there!
You can try and plan a day out where you start traveling in your car or on a bike, searching for a place that can become your escape place, a place where you can hide yourself from the world and come back to the person you really are, a relaxed person who exactly knows what he/she wants.
When you go shopping for example you can do exactly the same as I said before. It is all about noticing what surrounds you and seeing the beauty in it. Feel the material the clothes are made of, how your salad taste and your drink, the way your friend talks and move. Traveling, to me, is seeing a place in a way you never have before.
Lots of love
~Joëlle~
