I recently collaborated with Project Happiness on a write-up for reasons to travel the world. You can read the full article on their website.
Here’s a quick snippet of what I wrote for Project Happiness:
There’s a constant need to impress others and we all harbour some of this within us. It’s a part of who we are and we accept it, keep it close and relate to it as comfort, knowing it’s an intrinsic part of us.
If we always depend on others for our happiness, that makes us perceptible to being unhappy so quickly, to never feeling fulfilled or feeling like we’re enough.
Whether it’s in a relationship, the work place or every waking moment, we need to learn to trust ourselves without validation from another.
How travel helps take this dependence and trust yourself
I used to think I was so self-assured and in control of exactly who I am. Then something would happen and my self-esteem would falter. I used to lose faith in myself so quickly. Regardless of my ‘over-achiever’ personality and how proud I should be, I would doubt everything constantly.
Travelling taught me that I would still doubt life choices and push myself more than I could handle at times. Travelling solo taught me how to deal with these situations, take a step back, breath, smile and appreciate all the little things, which are essentially the bigger things.
The following are six reasons to travel at some point in your life. It doesn’t matter when. It’s never too early or too late…
Head through the following link to read the rest of the article: https://shop.projecthappiness.org/blogs/project-happiness/self-love-through-travel-and-resilience
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