"Hay" there ppl.. whazzuppppp???
about travelling. What is common about Marco Polo, Ibn batuta and Christopher Columbus? While a genius would put them under 'explorers' or 'Travelers', an idiot would categorize them as 'Man.' I, on other hand, would synonym 'Traveler' with "Man'. After all, it was man who explored the new word, travelled across the perilous jungle of Africa and trekked the treacherous Karakorum.Ask an eight-year old boy about his aspirations and you will hear all sort of answer ranging from sailor, scientist to pilot and explorer. Pose a similar question and you will be astonished with answer like 'doctor', 'pediatrician' or a probable 'air hostess'. In fact, the resultant of any search of famous explorers and traveler of last two thousand year would be one gender i.e. 'man'.
Keeping aside the gender, travelling has never begun as a retreat from one's life. It is spirit of exploration and need to discover new route and not a mere movement from a specific place or change of a particular cuisine. After travelling from modern Morocco to china, Ibn batuta became a famous historian, philosopher and prime source of information for about thousand of communities of his age. Columbus paved a way to discover new lands and was the main cause of collapsing the notion of flat world. And last but not the least, the owner of 'A giant step of mankind' walked on moon and ended up our entrapment on this ground!
Although travelling, in modern time, has lost a key essence i.e. hardship and became more like a trend, it has not lost its spirit. This in effect has gifted us with what our forefathers had not. Now and more than ever, we are blessed with more time to meet new people, explore different culture, indulge on trivial details and pamper ourselves with a gaze of new dawn and its promises. People, presently, have started to discover the unknown heritage and explore new culture. Even the adolescents have come realize how mall never slaked their emptiness and as result started have ventured to neighboring cities.
Since the dawn of civilization, travelling has been the one thing that allowed man to fist his way towards destiny. And as a result, it has been recorded in books fiction and nonfiction alike. First, man travelled in search of water and food. Then, he travelled for knowledge. And now he travel for various reason. Travelling has become a reward for employee who breaks up from his accustomed life, newly married couple who are on threshold of new beginning, scientists who take up a no less perilous journey of early man for various reasons and volunteer and social worker who campaign for development of humanity
1 comments:
EXELLENT! excellent use of general knowldge and very well written however the gender part bugged me ALOT becuase Amelia earhart was the first woman to fly across the atlantic solo, so no the travelling profession is not for men alone, they may be dominant but women travel too. so many woman have made records of being the first to do many things. the woman's life has been put into many museums becuase she was so influential as an explorer and travellor.
ps: u forgot to write the "girls" part in ur paragraph with 8 year olds, and no hardly any of us want to be air hostesses. i wanted to be a super hero so there, men and women have a very small differntial line. dont day that only men difine travelling...ever. EXCELLENT post over all.
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