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the sun rise and set from a different part of the world? To have a different taste on your taste buds? To just see and let your feet feel the sand from another ocean that you have always seen on a map apart from the Indian Ocean? The Atlantic Ocean or the Mediterranean Sea perhaps? There are numerous benefits associated with travelling, but I will touch upon those that I have personally experienced. Traveling improves your communication skills. It makes you able to express yourself better. It gives you ideas and different perspectives by making you experience new things that allow you to have content to contribute in conversations. You might as well discover a new passion or interest while travelling. You might go to Japan and discover that you love Sake, or to France and discover that you love medieval and ancient architecture or to China and love Chow Mein, or to Korea and love Kimchi. Travelling is therapeutic. It gives you this sense of renewed energy. Every time I travel I feel refreshed and ready to face challenges. It disconnects me from a daily routine. There are days when your job is driving you nuts, you are overwhelmed by family and your daily duties. Maybe all you just need to take a step back travel and meditate. Travelling also reintroduces you to yourself. This is because it presents you with new challenges. Handling them makes you feel truly confident in who you are. These challenges also enable you to learn things about yourself that you did not know existed. You feel sharper, since you will be required to find your way and navigate in new places and transport systems. It also expands your network, enables you to meet new people, make new friends and expand your circle. Now do you see why you need to upgrade your reality? Anybody whose profession demands a certain level of creativity should see the value in travel. "Nobody comes back from a journey the way they started it." - Anonymous Come on! Gift yourself a new experience. Go ye and travel. Margaret Muriithi is a Graduate Student - MSC Strategic Communications at Lund University. You can commune with her on this or related matters via email at: Margiewm.Muriithi4@ gmail.com.