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Article: The opportunity that traveling offers.

By: Rodrigo E.

Traveling open your mind; it offers something unique because traveling is a way to explore new places and try new experiences.

When you're young, you commonly have a young and unconquerable spirit. You have the energy and the will to do new things and explore new experiences. Youth is the time when we, young people are able to learn from our actions, and naturally when we turn a certain age we begin with these curiosities. The ways youths take care of these curiosities are really different, and sometimes we take a wrong path like alcohol, drugs or sex, but there are other paths as sports, hobbies and traveling. When you're young, traveling is something you always have on your mind -at least in my case- because you open your mind and soul to other cultures. I had this opportunity and I will never forget it. This opportunity, to open your mind that traveling offers, is something unique because traveling is a way to explore new places and try new experiences.

I went to Flint, Texas last year and that really opened my mind. If you’re wondering how traveling can open your mind, just think about this: you usually move in the same places every day. You have a schedule that almost never changes. You have a kind of routine for doing homework. You always have something to do or at least that was my case. The opportunity that traveling offered me was breaking free from that routine. When you’re in another place, you visit locations you don't go often; you don't have a routine, so you can appreciate things lot better. Also, you may have less activities to do and this lets you enjoy the bustle that happens around you. You can enjoy and try to understand how the local people live, shop, and also how they have good times. This experience is very unique.

Another thing that helped me open my mind and have a really, really good time was living new experiences. I went fishing for my first time, and it was amazing. The villages where we were staying were kind of sport facilities so they had a mini golf , tennis, basketball, and volleyball courts, and they even had their own marina. Having all those things around certainly help you to get busy, and it was really fun. We played a lot of games with mi cousin, we went fishing all day long to lake Palestine, and we even had the opportunity to learn how to cut a fish and how to prepare a good meal that in my country is called: “Ceviche”. But I have to tell that the place was in a rural place, it was around like 3 hours from Dallas and it didn’t have many places to go shopping. This made us move and know different places. We finally stayed the last 3 days of our trip in Dallas.

Traveling when you’re young is a positive activity that can touch you and move you but most importantly, it can give you an open-mind and new experiences to consolidate your character and temper. It’s also fun and soothes the desire or curiosity that we young people have about other cultures and other ways of living. I would strictly recommend you to give it a shot. Traveling is something you won’t regret and it gives you the opportunity to learn something new, something that may help you to become the grown up you’re meant to be.