It might be surprising to know just how much traveling can affect a person. Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares 5 interesting ways traveling affects us all.

Gives You a New Perspective on Life

Watching other cultures interact, seeing beyond your immediate environment and interacting with people of different perspectives and approaches to life has a way of giving you a new perspective on life. Traveling can help put things you previously took for granted in perspective and help you appreciate your roots more.

Helps Develop Emotional Stability

This might seem funny but traveling, in its own subtle way, actual helps increase emotional stability. You’ll typically experience a lot of changes and uncertainty while traveling, especially if you are a frequent traveler. As a result, you are likely to become less anxious to changes in your day-to-day life because you have, more or less, become used to it. Rather than dealing with changes with unease or anger, travelers are more likely to be open, flexible and willing to accept and deal with things that deviate from the norm.

You’re More Likely to Fall in Love

This is more likely if you’re traveling for leisure, mainly because you are removed from your reality, leaving behind most or all your worries and responsibilities to enjoy the new and exciting place you’re in. Besides, falling in love is much easier when you’re relaxed and enjoying yourself.

Your Diet Can Change Drastically

You are less likely to keep a rigorous eating habit while traveling because you either don’t have the time to source for the necessary ingredients or you’re too relaxed and happy to care. As a result, when you travel you’re more likely to indulge in groceries or local foods that have high-calorie or fat content, because those are the ones that are readily available and easier to get.

Traveling Can Affect Your Personality

Extended travel has a way of affecting the traveler’s personality and taking the person out of his/her comfort zone. Relating with new people that have different perspectives and watching or partaking in the culture of others, tends to make the traveler more flexible and open to new things.

source: http://www.opinions.ng/5-interesting-ways-traveling-affects-us/

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I love travelling
It exposes u to a lot of things

It affect ur pocket too. Especially with our exchange rate. So op adjust.

Hmmmmm where else I dey travel go sef

From abuja to owerri every 6months that's all

I love traveling sha

;Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

just passing

Travelling exposes you to new perspective about life

I love to Travel! Jumia Travel, come and sponsor me to explore Jupiter with NASA's Juno.

However you need to consider the financial implication. I ve seen people that travelled on hols and came back begging people who re using their money to build houses in Nigeria for money. These are people who will rather do things according to what they can afford and not struggling to travel all in the name of their friends traveling or trying to join the band wagon.

Welcome to Nigeria where your leave allowance (if ur company pays) is used to solve problems. How u wan take travel

Would really love to travel to the North even na Sambisa forest I don't mind.

not just to stay one place, I need someone to take me round

I have not traveld a lot, but hope to see many parts of the country and the world at large.

I travel twice every month its really fun

pls tell all those Igbos and other narrow and super shallow minded zealots who stay in their water logged villages instigating all manners of hate and genocidal tendencies/crimes. They just remain in one place gulping gallons of alcohol n talking rubbish

clems88:
I travel twice every month its really fun

weldone sir

MhizzAJ:


weldone sir

thanking you

To onitsha and aba

clems88:
I travel twice every month its really fun

ruffcoin09:
To onitsha and aba

SMH I'm sorry for you.

Nice piece. Travelling makes one more open-minded, sociable and knowledgeable

I hate travels.

adekhingz:
I hate travels.

Why

Lol

All these apply to me except the falling in love part

You forget it takes away your money

MhizzAJ:
I love travelling
It exposes u to a lot of things

*coughs*

Hmmmmm is that? Sambisa on my mind

I used to think hausas are dirty beggars until I went to Kano. I was overwhelmingly dissapointed. since then I'll never judge a tribe with the actions of few individuals.
nysc have its advantage after all

Remains one of the best form of learning. I am yet to see what else I love more than traveling.

I can totally relate. Just came back from my summer vacation to Southern Europe and I feel anew, refreshed and excited about life once again.