3 Reasons You Should Try Being a Tourist in Your Home Country
- Elisabeth Caraballo
- Jul 16, 2018
- 2 min read
If you’re the kind of person who has a strong capacity for wanderlust, you probably find that there’s virtually nothing as satisfying as getting out and about, and venturing to strange and wondrous new lands. Of course, there are a few problems with being an enthusiastic jet-setter. For one thing, it’s rarely cheap, and for another thing, it requires a good deal of planning, and often a good deal of time at your disposal. For these reasons, and more, it’s not uncommon for some of the most enthusiastic travelers out there to only get away for a week or two a year, in practice.
Have you ever considered trying to live like a tourist in your own home country for a while? You might think it’s dull, but perhaps after a bit of research, you’ll need to contact Climb That Rock in order to take advantage of the fact that you live in one of the world’s most rock climbing paradises, or pay for a trip to an art gallery you’ve never heard of, to see a masterpiece that draws people from around the world.
Here are some reasons why you should try living like a tourist in your home country for a while.
It turns your immediate environment into a wonderland.
Wouldn’t it be nice to wake up each morning in a wonderland, a place where you feel the endless call of adventure all about you, which you love, and which you’re motivated to explore and experience to the fullest?
Treating your homeland as a tourist would allow you to adopt a completely different mode of being in day-to-day life. Instead of feeling like you’re just hanging out somewhere mundane and largely uninteresting, you’ll feel excited and curious more or less constantly.
This certainly makes life a lot more fun, and maybe more fulfilling, too.
It reminds you just how important a truth of life mindset is for finding adventure.
When you commit to approaching your home country as a tourist, you force yourself to begin looking for interesting and exciting sights and opportunities to visit, just as a tourist would. Before too long, you can expect to discover an extraordinary number of fascinating and exciting things to do, where before you might have thought there was nothing much going on at all. This can serve as a tremendous reminder that a great truth of life — mindset is essential for finding adventure. Learn this lesson well, and life can become much more than it was before.
It will give you a deeper respect for the history of your nation.
For those of us who live in societies which have been relatively peaceful, stable and prosperous for a significant amount of time — it can be easy to forget just how many blessings we enjoy during day-to-day life. We can, in other words, forget about the sacrifices that went into securing us the things we benefit from and take for granted every day. Even if our societies are not so stable, we can still find cause for gratitude and an interest in history. Approaching your nation as a tourist motivates you to delve deeper into your history, and respect it all the more.











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