Traveller and Tourist

After watching one of the must see movie Eat, Pray, Love, and experienced the bitter sweet with Elizabeth through her journey from the West to the East, one thing just bumped into my mind that "Do we live by traveling OR do we travel by living?" Most of us live an ordinary lives and travel during holidays or vacations for sure. We work hard for next trip out of the office and bustling life. We highly depend on traveling to slow down our paces, to give the so-called "routine" life a stimulation but most importantly, to give yourself an incentive to look for, to move on, and to rescue the capability of  "hope" that you lost for long.

 So it comes to the next argument about "traveller and tourist".Who can be seen as a traveller and what attitude makes you a tourist? To me, the definition is clear when you answer to the first question at the very beginning of the article. That is, a traveller travels by living; a tourist lives by traveling. But why is it? Certainly, we knew the motto "life is a journey" since we first learned the word "life". As time passed by, we no longer taking the two as the same, we segment them in different categories, one for supporting our daily necessities and the other for us to escape or to free our soul. We are getting easily to overlook the simple happiness in our life. We believe that another trip will help us to find back who we really are.

I believe that in the journey of life, one should be a traveller not a tourist. To live in this moment and only by doing so can you actually see the subtle happiness appears in your daily life. Meanwhile, you will reflect yourself intensively and that you will hardly to forget what you really want and who you eager to be. You will cherish everything in your life because you know that there is always a lesson for you to learn. In this case, you are traveling for real in any time and at any place. You are well-prepared to feel, to experience, and to be moved in every single moment in your life, and that's the only way to make your journey a very unique one.