¿Qué significa para usted "Atrapar vuelos, no sentimientos"?

“Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

The inspiring motto ‘catch flights not feelings’ que los millennials en todo el mundo me ha hecho pensar.

¿Los viajes ayudan realmente a alcanzar verdadera felicidad? ¿Mejora la forma en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos? ¿Nos enseña a relacionarnos?

Pues sí, en mi opinión, atrapar vuelos y no sentimientos puede ser sin duda la mejor forma de vivir la vida.

En cierto modo, la gente se ha centrado demasiado en las relaciones que establece y, por lo general, está demasiado ansiosa por encontrar a esa persona que satisfaga todas sus necesidades.

Sorry for breaking your bubble, but that kind of person doesn’t exist.

You’re the only one who can complete yourself, and one of the best ways to do that is to travel. If you’re wondering how and why, you should keep reading.

5 Reasons ‘Catch Flights Not Feelings’ Should Be Your Life Motto

You’ll get to know yourself better

Every day of travel will bring new opportunities to learn new things about yourself. You’ll be surprised about the things you can do and about the ways you react to new surroundings.

Viajar te ayuda a descubrir aspectos completamente nuevos de tu personalidad.

The things you’ll find out about yourself while you’re away from home will definitely help you figure out the way you want to spend the rest of your life.

You will meet new people and through your relationships with them you’ll get to know so much about yourself.

Puede que encuentres nuevas aficiones y te des cuenta de que tus intereses y sueños son completamente distintos a como los habías imaginado mientras tu mente estaba atrapada en los problemas de tu vida cotidiana.

It’ll also help you disconnect from your everyday life

Hablando de elevarse por encima de los problemas de la vida cotidiana, viajar le ayudará a pensar de un modo completamente distinto.

The people, customs, and culture that’s around us is what we know.

Nos forma como personas, pero puede haber mucho más en nuestras personalidades y nuestras vidas si nos damos la oportunidad de explorar.

I’m not saying you should get a one-way ticket, but leaving the world you know for a while will be beneficial for you.

You’ll have the opportunity to get out of the fog of your everyday experiences and regain clarity. Use travel to refresh your alma cansada.

Viajar es un reto

Traveling isn’t always pretty. Even when you’re trying to keep it low key, things that are out of your comfort zone will still happen.

Once you’re out there, you’ll deal with stuff you’d never encounter at home. This will challenge you and give you an opportunity to grow and become stronger than ever before.

If you feel like you’re stuck in a rut and your life seems to be going in circles, the best thing you can do is break the circle and follow a completely different path.

Acepte los retos y el crecimiento. El cambio es la única constante en la vida humana y viajar te ayudará a aceptarlo y a personalizar tu forma de ver el mundo en consecuencia.

You’ll get a whole new perspective

Once you’re out there, you’ll notice that the way you think about the things in your past or whatever was a part of your life is completely different.

It’s not accidental that people always feel their wanderlust setting in whenever something difficult happens to them.

Irse de casa te da una perspectiva completamente nueva, un par de ojos frescos. Te da la oportunidad de ver tu vida desde un punto de vista más objetivo.

When you’re in the middle of things, it’s hard to look past the messiness of your own emotions, but when you’re traveling, every piece of your story seems to fit perfectly.

You’re suddenly able to verbalize exactly what happened to you and also comprehend the feelings it awoke in you.

Te ayudará a avanzar

Traveling is truly a healing process. While it can be hard to move on from certain things when you’re still stuck in an environment where those things happened, getting away for a while helps you recover.

La experiencia de conocer nuevas culturas, ver nuevos y hermosos paisajes, aprender más sobre el mundo y otros seres humanos es realmente extraordinaria.

Nos muestra cuántas personas diferentes viven en este mundo y cuántos tipos diferentes de vidas y destinos existen.

Nos damos cuenta de lo pequeños que somos en comparación con el universo y eso nos muestra lo pequeños y solucionables que son nuestros problemas.

There are ways to travel without spending too much…

You might think that traveling is hard: you need a lot of money, you need to take time from work…

Coger vuelos, no sentimientos puede parecerle demasiado caro. Pero hay muchas formas de vivir una experiencia de viaje sin gastar demasiado.

You can follow an airline’s website and try to get tickets at the sale price and save a bunch right there.

Also, there are so many beautiful places in the United States, there’s no need to visit the world’s trending destinations in order to get what you need out of traveling.

I’m absolutely certain that there’s a beautiful natural landscape near where you live. You can create a meaningful travel experience right there.

Ponte los leggings y la camiseta, coge tu sudadera con capucha favorita y vete de mochilero a la colina o montaña más cercana.

Who says you need to cross half the world for your trip to make sense? You absolutely don’t. You’ll be surprised how much better you feel afterward.

En cuanto a la baja laboral, hay formas de viajar incluso en días laborables.

Find an interesting pub you’ve never been in before and step out of your comfort zone by meeting the people that go there – especially tourists and travelers.

Listening to other people’s stories and experiences is like reading a book and very similar to travel – it gives you a new perspective.

How did the ‘catch flights not feelings’ motto change my life?

Vivir la vida de esta manera me hizo apreciar mucho más todo lo que tenía. Me hizo darme cuenta de que mi tiempo debía emplearse en hacer algo significativo, en crear una vida que valiera la pena vivir.

I’ve learned that, no matter how satisfying our everyday circumstances are, exploring new things, new landscapes, and new people gives me more than anything else in my life.

Esperar el amor no está prohibido. Pero el amor se puede encontrar de muchas formas diferentes.

The traditional way people see love, love as an attachment, didn’t fit me. It was a huge burden and I’ve found a way to incorporate love into my life in ways I find fitting.

I didn’t want to spend another day wondering whether my boyfriend loved me, if I was good enough for him, and whether he would call me at the time he said he would.

Tuve suerte de darme cuenta de lo vacía que estaba.

I decided to stop looking for someone to make me into the person I was hoping to be: happy, strong, satisfied, inspiring…

At first, I was lost. I didn’t know where to go or how to motivate myself to become that kind of person. Luckily, I’ve found my motivation in traveling.

No hay nadie que pueda dártelo todo. No hay nadie que pueda enseñarte a vivir tu vida para estar contento. Sólo tú puedes hacerlo.

I know you’re probably trying to find ways to get to know yourself better and improve your life.

I know you’re making the exact same mistake I made… You’re looking inside your own mind.

Puede que esto le sorprenda, pero para encontrarse a sí mismo tiene que ampliar su visión.

Aprender sobre los demás te ayudará a aprender sobre ti mismo.

Vivir nuevas experiencias te ayudará a comprender tu pasado.

Aceptar las diferencias en el mundo exterior te ayudará a hacer paz interior.

I know what you’re thinking – I’ve had my doubts too.

Is this ‘catch flights not feelings’ thing just a way for people who are unhappy in their relationships to represent themselves as strong while inside they are suffering?

That’s what I thought at first… I can now honestly tell you that that’s not how it is.

There’s enough time to find love, you have to find yourself first.