旅行：遇見更好的自己

Traveling is one of life’s great joys. It’s a way to see the world and learn about places you’ve never been before. Here are some ways to help you make the most of your travel experience.

旅行是人生一大樂趣之一。旅行的方式，讓我們放眼看世界以及了解自己以前從未去過的地方。這里有一些方法有助于你充分體驗(yàn)旅行的樂趣。

1. Plan for the unexpected

旅途中的意外驚喜

An itinerary can be helpful, but you won’t be able to plan everything down to the smallest detail. How could you possibly have known about that little restaurant at the back of that alley before you arrived, or that friendly local who invited who into his house to hear him play the santuri? Often, the best parts of a trip are a result of an adventure.

旅行日程可能會有所幫助，但你無法計劃到一切最小的細(xì)節(jié)。你不到那里的話，你怎么可能知道那個巷子后面的那個小餐館呢?或者說，你怎么可能預(yù)料到友好的當(dāng)?shù)厝藭埬愕剿胰ヂ犓葑鄵P(yáng)琴?通常情況下，一次旅行的最佳部分就是冒險。

2. Not getting what you want or getting what you didn’t want can be a blessing in disguise

沒有收獲你想要的東西或收獲了你不想要的東西，因禍得福的感覺

When you have to take a later bus or a different ferry, you have no choice but to accept it. This is how a lot of successful people learn to be happy when things don’t go their way.

在你沒有選擇的情況下，就必須得搭乘下一輛公共汽車或下一輛渡輪，沒辦法你就只能接受它。這就是很多成功人士如何從事情出乎意料的情況下所得到的快樂。

3. The best things can come from the worst experiences

最糟糕的經(jīng)歷卻讓人有最美好的體驗(yàn)

Once, when I was in Sicily, I was swindled by a stranger for a hundred dollars. At first I was devastated. I spent the entire next day thinking about what I should have done to keep my money, and what I would do if I had it. But what I learned from this about humanity, about the nature of good and evil within people, and how circumstances force them to do bad things showed me a lot about myself and how to cope with misfortune.

有一次我在西西里島，被一個陌生人騙走了一百美元。起初我非常震驚，第二天，我一整天都在想如果不讓騙子成功得逞的話，我應(yīng)該怎么做。但從這件事情上，我學(xué)到的關(guān)于人性、關(guān)于人們的性本善和性本惡、關(guān)于環(huán)境迫使人去做壞事，都讓我對自己審視良多，已經(jīng)讓我知道了如何應(yīng)對不幸。

4. Price and value are two different things

價格和價值是兩碼事

The cost of a trip may be a couple of thousand dollars, depending on how big you go. But the value it could have on your life and your memories could be priceless. Think about how much you are willing to spend, sure, but also consider what else you want from your vacation, who you want to meet, what kind of experiences you want to have, and how you want to remember it ten years from now.

旅行可能會有幾千美元的花銷，這取決于你的個人經(jīng)濟(jì)狀況。這筆費(fèi)用可能會對你的生活是筆不菲的開銷，但留給你的回憶卻是無價的。想想你愿意花多少錢去旅行一次，當(dāng)然，還可以考慮你想從假期中獲得什么，你想見誰，你想擁有什么樣的經(jīng)歷體驗(yàn)，以及如何才能把這次旅行體驗(yàn)記在心里長達(dá)十年的時間。

5. Don’t follow others’ footsteps and find your own path

不要步人后塵，要找到自己的路

Traveling in a guided tour can be informative and fun, but I look forward to wandering away from the group, down labyrinthine alleys, into falafel shops and sectarian neighborhoods, to experience my own understanding of a city and its environs. The same applies to when I come home from my trip.

在導(dǎo)游的帶領(lǐng)下，旅游融知識性和樂趣性于一體，但我期待著不跟團(tuán)旅游的體驗(yàn)，體驗(yàn)著走一走迷宮般復(fù)雜的小巷，走進(jìn)沙拉三明治店和教區(qū)體驗(yàn)一下，親自去體驗(yàn)了解一下一個城市及其周圍地區(qū)。在我旅行歸來時，這樣的體驗(yàn)方式照樣能行。

6. Living in the moment

活在當(dāng)下

Traveling is kind of like being in love. Except instead of being intimate with another person, you become intimate with a place. Those moments of pleasure when the sun hits your face and you look out onto a foreign countryside, or arrive at a new train depot in a bustle of taxis and hawkers—those are the moments you, or at least I, remember, and live for, again and again.

旅行從某種意義來講就像是在談戀愛，就像是在和戀人親密熱戀一樣，只不過是你和一個地方變親密。當(dāng)陽光普照在你的臉龐上時，在你看到窗外異國鄉(xiāng)村風(fēng)情時，當(dāng)你在熙來攘往的人群車流中或打的或坐拉腳車去一個新車站時，這些都是快樂時光，至少那個時刻的你，給自己留下了記憶，而且這些快樂的記憶又是如此鮮活。

7. Seeing how other people live

觀察別人是如何生活的

We’re all part of a human family, but it’s easy to forget that when we move through our daily routine, seeing people who live just like we do. But when you see people going about their daily existence in ways very different from your own, it can open your eyes to how similar you are to them, and how different.

我們都是人類大家庭的一部分，但在日常生活中我們很容易忘記這點(diǎn)，看到大家的生活和我們的生活別無二致。但你會看到那里的人們的日常生存方式，與自己的生存方式還是大不一樣，可以開闊你的眼界，你和他們是那樣的相似卻又大不相同。

8. Appreciating what you have

感激自己所擁有的一切

When you see a family eating rice for dinner and sleeping on the street under the open sky, it can help you think about how lucky you are to have a home and warm clothes you can go back to. Chances are if you’re reading this right now, your probably in the top 20% of the world’s wealthiest people. Don’t forget it!

當(dāng)你看到一家人正餐吃的是米飯，睡在露天的街道上，想想自己夠幸運(yùn)的了，擁有一個幸福的家，吃得好穿得溫。如果你正在讀這篇文章，別忘了!你可能會是世界上20%最富有的人之一。

9. Discerning tiny differences

辨別微小差異

When you travel to a country that speaks a different language, it’s easy to spot what else makes it different. From the way the sunlight falls across a valley to the different flora and fauna in the surrounding forest, use your senses to determine what else is different in your foreign destination.

到那個講不同語言的國家旅行時，很容易領(lǐng)略到異國風(fēng)情。陽光穿過山谷落在異國森林周圍的植物群和動物群中，用你的感官來判斷外國目的地還有什么不一樣的風(fēng)土人情。

10. Be more comfortable alone

獨(dú)自一人更舒適更自在

Even when you’re traveling with others, it can be isolating when no one speaks your language. Too often, you will have to make do thinking thoughts in your head, which is what many great thinkers, philosophers and artists have long known and practiced.

在沒有人會說你的語言的情況下，即使你和他人結(jié)伴旅行，可能也會有種被隔離的感覺。很多時候，你不得不自行去思考，許多偉大的思想家、哲學(xué)家和藝術(shù)家們早就懂得這點(diǎn)并付諸實(shí)踐。

11. Learn how to tell a better story

學(xué)著怎樣把一個故事講得更加精彩

Inevitably you will see or hear things worth telling friends about when you return home. After traveling enough, you will have all the practice you need to become a master story-teller.

你不可避免地會看到或聽到一些回家后值得對朋友們講的喜聞樂見。多次旅行之后，你就擁有了實(shí)戰(zhàn)經(jīng)驗(yàn)成為一個講故事高手。

So keep traveling with these lessons in mind and learn more from your experiences abroad.

因此，牢記這些貼士然后去旅行吧，從出國旅行經(jīng)歷中你會學(xué)習(xí)更多。