A famous quote by Oscar Wilde says that, “Travel improves the mind,” and I strongly believe in it: living with people of different cultures, eating their typical food, and listening to their stories opens your mind and shows you new points of view. In my opinion, an open mind is a fundamental element for critical thinking: this is the main reason why I decided to live an Erasmus experience. It is a great journey that I have just started but I’m sure it will enrich me mentally.
Moving, changing places not only means walking around and seeing different buildings, landscapes and streets, it means discovering and learning something. I can compare the sensation I have at the beginning of every trip to the excitement I have before a roller-coaster starts: something is going to happen and I know I’m going to have a strong, strange feeling. Many times, I have lived my traveling as this, with enthusiasm, fun and astonishment but I could realize this all only at the end of the trip, when the experience was gone as fast as a roller-coaster. Later, I have learned to stop for a moment during my trips, in a very special moment or in a normal one (as when you take the first picture), just to enjoy the feeling and to understand that I’m learning something I will love to remember.
At the end of every trip, I feel my personal baggage is not heavier but more complete: this is the meaning of traveling to me and the one I’d like to make other people discover. There is always something new to see, a new place to visit, a new sky to admire. Once, another Oscar Wild’s quote got to me, “Travel with no regret”, and I try to keep it in my mind, ticket by ticket.
- Beatrice
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