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Why to travel?
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There were times when people changed their places only because of wars, trade, research, or pilgrimage, or sometimes all these together. It is great that today an opportunity to travel has become more simple, because we all have a traveller's spirit inside us. Though an epoch of geographical discoveries has been over long time ago, we may not like the fact that America was opened by someone else but not by us. Sometimes we want to go '"for three seas". Because starting from a certain moment we understand that our planet is our home.
Look what the famous traveler Fyodor Konyukhov writes on his web site http://www.konyukhov.ru about his understanding of traveling:
"I am searching for an explanation for the sense of life through my journeys. I want to know, why a man is born, grows, lives through many difficulties, gets married, has children and then dies. The same is true for his children. While being alone on the ocean or in the Himalayas, I have thought a lot about all that. It is a journey that enables you to think about such things. You can reflect on the fact that life cannot be senseless and that it must have some deep sense.
Where can the answer be found? Can it be found on the Everest summit or on the way to the North or South poles?
This is a brief answer to the question, why I travel and try to reach the most difficult and mysterious corners of our planet.
Some of my friends have mentioned that I am good at self-advertising. If somebody believes this, let it be so. However, it is a different thing that draws me to traveling. This is a passion for competition, accompanied by inquisitiveness, adventures experienced everyday and a view of the world through an artist's eyes.
I am not interested merely in physical efforts that one needs on the way to the Pole, when climbing Everest or sailing around Cape Horn. I get pleasure when I acquire spiritual force. I make my way first by spirit and then by body. As it is said, "If you are here in body, but not in spirit, there is no sense in this."
I would like to say the following to those aspiring to reach the top of Everest, reach the North Pole on foot or see Cape Horn, when on board a yacht. You should begin by overcoming yourself and plunge into self-reflection. It is only then that the route awaiting you or climbing to the top will become a symbol, an instrument of connection with the world and of learning about the limits of human capacity."
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