Why Travel Seminar Reflection

 

During our last week’s seminar, we talked about the topic ‘Why Travel’. We discussed the concept of travelling, the benefits and disadvantages of travelling, and many story examples of travelling, which led to many different topics like choices, challenges, adventure, destiny and so on. In the travel seminar, I didn’t have the courage to speak up, and to tell everyone what my perspective was, which was a very bad decision that I made, and I’m hoping that if we have a seminar next time I would brave enough to tell everyone my point of view even though I think its not good enough. Even though I didn’t say anything in the seminar, I heard many great ideas and perspectives about ‘Why Travel’, and I would like to share some of these ideas.

 

 The book ‘ The Alchemist’ by Paulo Coelho, a young shepherd named Santiago goes on a quest to fulfill his destiny ( Maktub), leading him to travel to a farther countries in search for treasures. This connects to the topic ‘Why Travel’ in several ways, the few main keys I think are connect to this book are, Exploration and Discovery, Personal Journey and Personal growth, and Following his own dreams. For Exploration and Discovery, Santiago’s travels took him through many landscapes, meeting different people and cultures along the way. Traveling through the world helped Santiago gain more opportunities to explore and learn about different lifestyles, traditions, and a different way of thinking. For Personal Journey and Personal growth, Santiago’s journey helped him to become more individual, he had an new understanding of himself, he gained insights, and most importantly he paid attention to the world around him and saw all the magnificent creations around him, with the knowledge he learned from the dessert allowed him to recognize nature around him. For following his own dreams, Santiago following his dreams represents the importance of following ones dreams, even though it requires stepping out of ones comfort zone, as Dutch proverb said “He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him”. 

 

In my perspective I think travelling is important, because travelling can help a person to widen their Eyesite’s, and to think out of the box. As Jack Kerouac said “I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility”. Going on a journey and leaving everything behind is a very hard thing to do, but once you step out of your comfort zone and go into the big world, you would see amazing new things, and much more possibilities. 

 

These are the few points I think that are pretty good. I hope after this reflection on what I did could help me to improve my sharing skills to the class. 

 

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