Let me tell you something freeing about traveling around. This fact may seem depressing to some and it is probably the reason why many people return home after a short while. This is the thing that I love so much about traveling right now though.
When I am traveling, when I was in Kenya a few weeks ago, I met so many new people, and there, I wasn't the kid who was in a car accident and lost everyone, I wasn't the one who lost his mother months ago. To them I was something strange and different, something that they did not know and something that they didn't need to know. Nobody cared about my past, however while climbing the mountain a few questions were raised about how well I could actually do it considering my knee.
What I am really trying to get at, is that when I travel, I have no past, nobody recognizes me so very few of my old labels may be stuck on my back. I don't get automatic sad eyes from everyone around me. People don't talk to me and ask me "How are you doing?" I can talk to new people and before anything about my personal self and past has to come up, I have left for a new country or a new city. When I travel, I feel free, without a past, nothing tying me down.
I think that people who have left for university are feeling similar things now, they don't have to be their old self, they can if they want, but if you need to reinvent yourself, if you want to be more outgoing, more adventurous, or less snobby now is the time to do it.
I highly recommend traveling, don't go with a set plan. You could go from climbing Kilimanjaro to sitting in a cafe in Moscow writing a blog about nothing important.
Travel, especially if you need a break from your past
