I can't say I'm that much of traveller, I travel often but after coming back and looking at the whole journey, most part of it's a bunch of stupidity. I think I'm improving as a traveller, I used to capture a lot of images of mine more than the sceneries. Maybe all this camera thing is not at all essential at it. I've wasted a lot of good moments on the journey by spending more time on taking my own pictures.

As I mentioned I'm evolving, now travel is more than those selfies and other snaps. It's becoming more about the vibe of it. If I say I can feel the wind and talk to nature it's gonna be a stupid lie, its what all those fake wander lust's gonna say. For me, it's the vibe that I can't explain. It attains completeness after the travel.

When it becomes a memory, It's the place where all these snaps we took has value. It's like small time-travel window towards the past, even if I can't feel the same vibe I had before, I can feel some pain which says that I can't go back.

Travel will only complete after we came back and shares the experience to someone. It's not my quote, It's what an old teacher of mine said. When I was in high school, there were these five-day trips to various places in the country. Usually, it was at Christmas time. As usual, we all were excited about these tours.

Our Teacher will come and introduces this tour to us when they have planned everything well. After talking about the places where we are going he will always talk about a competition which will be conducted after it, it was for the best travelogue. It's compulsory that we all need to write something about the whole journey.

At that time for most of us, it felt like some kind of homework we hated. My tiny head couldn't understand the thought behind it. So like other homework, I complete it in the last moments and submit. I've never seen my name on the notice board, I never expected it.

Now I know what that teacher's words meant. It's not some kind of enlightenment, but the idea of sharing is also a part of it. Still, I take photos of mine but I've changed more concentrating on the sceneries.

Another important part of my travel is the people I go with and the people I've met along the journey. The people I travel with always mattered a lot to me, I thought without a good company it's hard to entertain along the journey. But an exception to this happened in one of my recent trips. It was before about two months, a family friend of mine came home after being abroad. We were not that much close, but I was the only one he had as a friend in the family.

He is not that much of talkative guy, even without giving me time to know more about him he invited me on a trip which he planned to go alone. I knew that it's gonna be boring, he don't talk that much and I've to spend all time alone. But my mother pushed me to go with him cause he is a family. So finally I joined him.

It was like I was travelling all alone, he's just looking outside and doing his own things. Usually, if it was with my friends we will be singing, dancing and all other full of some entertainments. At the end of the first day, I was completely exhausted. But then there was that change, all my boring was gone I started to be like him just calm and looking around everything. At first, it was hard, but eventually, I grasped the flow of it.

It was the travel that gave me whole new dimensions to my ideas on the travel. It taught me that we could be all alone on a trip and still be enjoying it. It's more than friends and small jokes. Then after we came back we talked about it and the things we have seen, I remember the whole journey with its complete clarity.

As I said in the beginning, for me it's all about learning new lessons after each travel. I think I'm improving as a traveller and also as a person. It taught me how to break the barrier of a stranger from someone and also some facts like there are still some people who care about others, who wanted to really help others.

For me, travel is the search for the things that could make me better a human being. That was a little bit dramatic I think but the story demands it. Due to the COVID situation now it's hard to leave even the town. I hope everything's gonna be back as normal and I could travel and continue the search.

(All the photos shown above are mine)
I usually don't write this much, thanks @bdcommunity for picking this topic for the contest

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