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Travel as a Metaphor for Life

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Life is a journey...travel it well. Traveling is my passion. If I get to do something in my life and get paid for it, then I would just travel around world. There is no end to travel. You are born on the road and you die on the road. The road becomes narrow at the middle. That’s difficult journey of life. It’s not an easy road. The traveler is not only going sightseeing; he has to pacify all of his belongings. When you go traveling, you have to take a risk of leaving your house itself. You don’t know what’s going to happen to it. You don’t know if anyone is going to rob it. You just let it happen to have fun in life. Same with life, if you want to have fun then you have to forget some factors of life. Not only you take a risk of leaving your belonging, but also you attempt traveling in between an extreme strange people. Another way travel can be metaphor for life is you can’t bring back the money you spend on traveling. With life you can’t go back to certain time and change stuff around or re-enjoy that moment. Before you travel at any place, you crave to go there and can’t wait to be there. In life, when you are kid you can’t wait to grow up. Then once you grow up you don’t want to deal with hectic life and want to become a child once again. Traveling shows that life is ever changing. Nothing stays the same and things will never be constant. Traveling is like going through each phase of life. Going from a kid phase to a teenager to an adult. In order to travel you have to buy tickets for different rides or locations. Even for life when you go from one stage of your life to another there is some distinction. For an example, when you go from being a preteen or an early teen to a mid teen you get the "ticket" to be able to drive showing that you at mature enough. And then when you turn 18 u can legally vote and considered to be an adult. And then when you are in your 50s you have retirement as your "ticket". Traveling

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