We cannot compare the benefits of travelling
solo and in group, especially with friends. They have their own inclinations to
get along with you, and at times, you love both. Generally, as we know, it has
be interplay of both, external as well as internal factors.
But, ultimately, if we go by our inner call,
then any such decision is a mix of factors acting in coordination that finally
decide with which way we will go.
The first factor is the weaving of your thought
process.
If you are a person who enjoys your own company,
you would love to go for a solo trip where you can croon, dance, sit and talk,
all coming from and going inside you.
The best thing about having such intense
one-on-one with you that you easily follow your own path even if you are in a
group of friends. Yes, the nature of your interaction with self changes
accordingly.
Trips that are exploratory in nature have their
best chances when they find someone like this on the journey. They find their
ways, be among people or walking alone. They are the truth-seekers. They are
the knowledge-seekers. They are the wisdom-seekers. And journeys seek them.
The second factor is your mood.
Irrespective of the proclivity of your conscious
(and subconscious mind), it is your mood that first decides whether you would
go a for trip at all and if it says yes, then what contours it will take -
whether your mood is pushing for you to take a solitary break away from the
world around you to look for some moments in your own company - or it is
seeking to share what is inside you with your friends and a group trip along
the highway or in the valleys or on the hills or anywhere you like is the
perfect occasion for it.
The third factor is obviously the occasion.
It is again interplay of different factors. If
you are a party goer, you will seek to turn every group occasion into a good
party time. You, will, in fact, go to every extent possible to have those
evenings or nights or days again and again.
If you are a normal guy or girl next door, you
will go where the party goes. And even if you are a reluctant, self-contained
soul, you will not hesitate to become part of the show because you know it is
going to be just those hours.
Mind you folks, these are about normal
existences. We are not taking about exceptions and exclusivities here. We are
talking about life journeys here.
©SantoshChaubey