How long can a year be? If you have been working for twelve months without leave it sometimes feels like an eternity. Perhaps you are working for a bank. In the current state of the economy you might have had the stressful experience of referring many clients to a debt consolidation service. Maybe you are a trader, forever waiting for that one forex signal that will make you rich. Whatever job you do, by November you will be tired and irritable. Our advice to you is to store your laptop in it’s laptop bag and catch a plane to a far-off place where you have never been before. A place to regain your strength – ready to fight the good fight again.

There is nothing that will recharge your batteries like 3 weeks in a foreign place. A place where there is no stress; where you can get up as late as you want and go to bed as late as you want. Where for three weeks you can eat as much ice cream as you want and where nobody complains if you eat no veggies.

Traveling has a way to take your mind away from the troubles you left behind like little else on earth. When you travel to a far-off place you are confronted with so many new things every day, that you have no time to dwell on the problems back at the office.

People in other places do things differently. And this is one of the reasons why traveling will give you a new perspective on life. You will gradually realize that you don’t have to eat at 6pm every night and go to bed at ten. That people in Buenos Aires seldom eat before ten and often go to bed at three. Your firm conviction to always talk softly will be shaken when you meet many people who talk very loudly and who seem to much happier than you are.

You will make many new friends. People who once again do things just that little differently to what you know. They might eat different food, or eat the same food but in a different way. They will probably wear different clothes, or perhaps the same as you, but a lot less of it.

Traveling will open your mind like nothing else could ever do. You will for the first time be able to come back to your own country and see it the way a foreigner would.

The things that seemed so important to you in your own life only a few short weeks ago, might suddenly seem trivial. You might lose prejudices you had for a lifetime, but you will gain perspective that you never had.

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