Travel now. Otherwise you will regret it in old age, say sociologists

There is always a reason to sit at home and nowhere to go: a tight budget, a large number of cases at work, the kids, the nervousness before the trip and fears for their safety. And anyway, "there is no one in Russian does not speak".

But if you don't do travel — at least within their own country — one of its major priorities, you probably will regret it when you get older.

No matter how much you have traveled around the world and how many countries would have been, traveling is something that will always be small.

Carl Pillemer, gerontologist at Cornell University, explores the lives of the elderly, their fears, doubts and experiences of life. Over the years he has written two books — "30 lessons for life" and "30 lessons for loving" — and both became bestsellers. They are based on history, 1000, and 700 elderly people, respectively.

More specifically, the last few years, Pillemer interviews of retirees from different countries to use their life experience to understand what mistakes people should avoid while they are young.Now, the absolute majority of all elderly interviewed a social scientist, I believe that the main mistake of their youth — that they are little traveled. Few cities visited, with a small number strangers talking or — worse — have not been there, where all life dreamed to visit.

The majority admits that when they were 20, 30 or 40 years, they justified their reluctance to travel around the world or around the country that they don't have the money for it. A lot of people were counting on the fact that "first put on children's feet", and then later, in retirement, can "live happily".

One 81-year-old man told Pillemer that if he had the opportunity to live a second life, he would spend all his money on knowledge of the world. Now he has something to regret: he never went on vacation with his wife, who died prematurely from cancer.





Learn from others ' mistakes: take peredomnoy of Pillemer cannot be called scientific. Still, it mostly collects stories, not scientific facts. But scientists also studied this question. In the study by the British heart Foundation, who has studied what people most often regret before death, it is said that the unfortunate No. 1 — a small number of trips. And when the specialists asked the respondents why they made such an error, the typical response was that they have "always been too much to do."

Scientists are also interested in what the elderly would like to change in your life if they mysteriously have the opportunity to live it again. In the first place in the list of desires to "win the lottery", the second "to travel the world, the third is to see the Northern lights, the fourth — to go on a Safari in Africa, the fifth — to try to live in another country.

In General, traveling is something most of us dream of the most. But we do it very rarely — even those who have the money. 85% of Russians admit that they perform work during vacation, and 53% makes this even during your vacation abroad. But let's be honest: you have no excuse to live like this. If you have no money for the journey, why can't you go Hiking in the woods or on the lake? Why don't you ride regularly in a picturesque village near your town? What prevents you to take a bike and ride 30 minutes on the waterfront?

In General, if one day you don't want to be in the place of those martyrs, which communicates Pillemer, try to diversify at least your weekend. You often need to go — at least in his hometown — and not confined within the route "home-work-home". Drive to visit friends on the other side of town. Walk not only by the Park, which starts two blocks from you. Next time when you decide which Mall to go, select the one that has never (or just recently) was not.

Pillemer quoted one of their respondents: "of the Trip, and even better, traveling is something that most profitable to spend time and money. They should be a priority for young people. Because there is a world more fun than that."





Travel — I don't kamenobrodsky heart Foundation says that one of the most common regrets among the elderly is: "I'm sorry I drank too MUCH". In General, if you tie with alcoholism, then you almost certainly have money in order to sometimes drive on long trips. If it helps you, get the family special savings account, which would bring money for the holidays.

And even think about Smoking. About it, too, regret VERY often. And it's insanely expensive habit. If you smoke a pack of cigarettes a day, and it costs $1, per year you can only on the rejection of this habit to save $365. Two years without tobacco and you can go for a week in Egypt.

In General, the main thing to take care is to change priorities. In addition, studies show that travel is good for your physical and mental health.

CONCLUSION: You can't afford not to travel. If you do not begin to postpone on vacation right now, you probably will regret it in the future.published

Author: Konstantin Shiyan

Source: lifter.com.ua/post/768