Reasons to travel while you are young

Since I'm back from my Erasmus I have been traveling non-stop, or at least a lot more than I used to before. And most of the things I hear from people about it is: "I want to travel too", "are you rich?", etc. Answer: Do it, and no of course I am not rich. You just have to make it a priority. What I mean with that is instead of going out every thursday and saturday night, week after week spending 20 something Euros per night, save it, and check low cost websites everyday and if you're lucky you will find flights back and forth for less than 25 euros. 

My dad told me once, I envy you because when I was young I did not have the possibility nor the facilities to travel as you have. And damn, he is right! When if not now is the best moment to travel, I am young, full of energy, curiosity and it couldn't be easier to travel. When he was young if you wanted to travel within Europe you had to pass through long processes and sometimes you couldn't even get into a country. Nowadays, at least in Europe we have the Schengen Agreement which allow al European Union citizens to move freely one country to a other. 

But, it is true, it is easy to say or write it here on a blog and difficult to do. Myself, I haven't been out of Europe yet, but you have to take everything step by step. Because if you are a beginner in climbing, you won't start with Mount Everest on your second day of training right? 

I can't stand those people that spend day and night writing YOLO here and there but I have to say, they are somehow right and true because, You Only Live Once, or better said, you are only young once so you better make it count or you will regret it for the rest of your life. Because think about it this way, this time of your life is the only time you can afford to make mistakes, this is the only time you can afford to do anything you want, this is THE time. Because you will have plenty of time the rest of your life to fix those mistakes, to regret or not whatever you have or haven't done. If you don't do it now, you will end up never doing it, because when you are older you have more restrictions, more responsabilities that would not allow you to make these things.

It is said that how you really learn something is by experience it or by practise, that is why most of the world travelers around the world end up saying that a round the world trip have tought them more then all the notebooks they have used. It is also said that traveling open your eyes and make you face the reality, that after traveling the world, problems we could have back home seems like crap compared to what other people around the world is passing through, and they still have a smile on their face.

And what is most important of all, traveling helps you to find yourself, to get inspired, motivated, to get influenced and to change to a better person. 

At the moment, I recently became 21, and I have so far lived in 3 countries(Sweden, Spain and Denmark) and visited 8 countries but a uncountable number of cities and I am just starting and not planning on stopping. I wish that everybody that reads this posts things about themselves and about their lives and what they want to do with it. And whatever you want to do, just make it a priority and if you can dream it, you can achieve it.