1. 如果你不迈出第一步，你永远都无法完成它。
我们很容易就陷进这个死循环里逃不出来，我们总是在说着“我打算去了——但我现在还不能走——我明年会去的——我打算去了，”周而复始。毕竟，外面的世界很精彩，我们总是渴望着能够去看看这些地方，但也总是发现有这样那样的理由在阻挠着你。可是，从你决定你要付诸行动的那一刻起（当然也得花点血汗钱去做），一切都显得那么水到渠成。
2. 没你想的那么贵。
如果你觉得在机票等东西上的花费有点让人心疼，其实还有很多其他的办法可以让你的旅途不那么昂贵。如果觉得住旅馆太贵了（其实在很多主要城市，有很多那种提供一个床位15块钱一晚的甚至更便宜的），那么其实你可以选择做沙发客。如果你谁都不认识，你可以上网找到很多专门组织沙发客的网站。（其实我自己和我在巴黎的大多数朋友都曾经接待过沙发客，因为我们非常理解很多人都希望到这个城市来看一看，但并不是每个人都总是有足够多的旅费。）以一个主人的身份认识新的朋友，从他们的视角重新认识这个城市，这个经历是非常非常有趣的。当然，沙发主人们也可能会带你找到便宜又正宗的饭店，卖便宜东西的小店，这样你就不会像其他游客一样被宰了。这是一件双赢的事情，而且基本上是不花什么钱的。（当然，你大可以请你的主人家吃顿饭或者喝瓶酒，有可能的话帮忙做点家务——但是，这些都远远比住旅馆的花费低得多了。）
3. 你不是单独的一个人。
除非是你自己想，否则你的旅途是不会孤独的。因为不管你是住旅馆，睡人家的沙发，或者是你在出发前参加的一个组织同城游客见面会的在线旅行团，你都不会是单独一个人的。朝气蓬勃，又到了一个新的城市里，没有什么时候比现在更容易认识这么多的新朋友，并且对着陌生人口若悬河。这个时候你不用担心你留给别人的第一印象如何，或者你回家之后还有多少的压力重负。所有的人，所有的事情，都像一张空白的白纸一样，你可以在你的旅途中认识各种你想认识的人。
4. 但是如果你想，你也可以一个人独处。
如果其实你比较喜欢自己一个人独处，那也有很多方法让你出行。你大可以抽一天时间去一个新的城市走走逛逛，欣赏着一切新的东西，沉浸在自己的思绪里。 你可以拍拍照片，或者找个咖啡馆坐下来写写你所见到的东西，而不需要被其他人的行程所牵绊。在家里我们很少有这样的时光做这些事情，但如果这是我们想要的，我们应该偶尔为自己留出这样的时间来独处。
5. 搭飞机旅行本身就是一种历险。
仅仅登机感受到它在起飞，或者在清晨逛一下拜占庭式嘈杂的机场，已经是一件经常会被我们忽略却足够刺激的事情了。飞机起飞或者从机翼边上俯瞰地上的块块田野，虽然确实有点恐怖，但也同时非常的让人心潮澎湃。当你正搭乘着飞机去你向往了好多年的地方，即使是经常让人失望的飞机餐也突然变得异常美味起来。因为这一刻意味着你真的行动了，你克服了那么多阻止你开始的理由，你终于开始了，新的一切在等着你去发掘。
6. 只要你到了那里，去其他的地方也就没那么难了。
比如欧洲。你本来只是想看看罗马，但是你到了之后又想要去看看周围其他的地方。你可以选择8.8-7折的便宜火车票卡，你也会发现便宜到让人吃惊的飞行在欧洲各个城市间的航班，你也可以很容易地就在网上找到共用汽车旅行，不用几个钟就可以穿越整个国家。只要你已经飞跃到了大洋彼岸，有太多的方法可以让你去周围其他的地方。不管你是去哪里，你会发现（大多数方法来自于网络）能够让你一次旅行就游遍周围的方法越来越多了。
7. 你永远不知道你到了那里后会发生什么。
虽然这很老套，但这么说也是有道理的。你可以年复一年的给自己找借口说，你也没有多遗憾没有去，或者你其实很怕去了之后玩得不开心，或者到了那里也不知道自己要做些什么，但事实就是，你的这些借口都不成立。旅途中会发生的很多美妙的事情确实是你无法想象到的。当然，你可以说你并不想去看它，但你绝对想象不到你错过了什么。
8. 你一定会更了解你自己。
非常简单的例子，“我可以仅凭着一本教实用短语的语言书就独自在一个外国城市里旅行。我可以用我有限的能力就找到美食、住宿，甚至交到新朋友。”了解自己是一件非常重要和必要的事情，而了解自己的唯一途径就是去远行，然后看看在你的努力尝试下会发生些什么。
9. 出去走走是件好事。
不管你有多喜欢你现在住的地方， 偶尔出去走走见见周围新的环境总是好的。你可以对比一下你去过的街角的酒吧，你常去的餐馆，你周围的建筑，还有你每天都要用的公共交通设施。即使最后发现你还是比较喜欢原来的地方，看一看我们平常习以为然的城市也是不错的经历，你会发现即使是同一个的城市，在喧嚣的包围下也呈现出了完全不同的氛围。每个城市都它自己的成长轨迹和个性，而我们有时候会忘记了我们的城市也是独一无二的。
10. 你还可以认识很多人。
或许你不大可能会在异国的路口遇见你的真爱。或许你不会在你探索新环境和嗑嗑巴巴地学习新语言的时候，花两周的时间跟他们呆在一起。或许你不会记得这个城市，即使你的余生从这个地方一切有了新的开始。当然，也或许你会，那么一切都有了足够的理由，行动吧。
1. If you don’t take the first step, you’ll never do it.
It’s so easy to get stuck in this cycle of “I’m going to go — I can’t go right now — I’ll go next year — I’m going to go, ” and never get out of it. There is, after all, a lot of logistics that go into getting out there and seeing the places you’ve always wanted to see. If you’re looking for one, there is always an excuse not to get those tickets. But the second you take the plunge and decide that you’re actually going (and making the painful-but-necessary financial investments to do so), everything else has a tendency to fall into place.
2. It’s less expensive than you think.
While the purchases of things like tickets are always going to sting a bit, there are so many ways to make your travels feasible to do on the cheap. If a hostel is too pricey for you (though there are many which offer beds at 15 bucks a night or even less in major cities), couch surfing is a wonderful option. If you don’t know anyone, check any of the many websites which organize couch surfers. (Speaking personally, I and almost all of my friends in Paris have hosted couch surfers at one time or another, because we understand that it’s a city so many people want to see at some point, and we don’t always have a ton of disposable income to do so.) It’s actually incredibly fun for hosts to meet new people and be able to see their city through new eyes. They can also help you eat cheap, local food and shop places where you won’t be another ripped-off tourist. It’s win-win, and practically free. (Of course, it’s always encouraged that you buy a meal or bottle of wine for your host, and help with chores when possible — but still, that’s nothing compared to a hotel.)
3. You don’t ever have to be alone.
Whether you meet people in your hostel, stay on someone’s couch, or join an online travel group before you go which organizes meetups for people passing through the city, there is never a reason to be alone while traveling if you don’t want to. Being young and in a new city is one of the easiest ways to meet tons of people, and gives you a million things to talk about in every conversation with a stranger. It’s a time you don’t have to be afraid of first impressions, or the baggage of your life back home. Everything and everyone is a clean slate, and you can meet as many people as you want on your journey.
4. But you can be alone if you want.
If you are more interested in spending some alone time, however, there are a million ways to go about that. You can just leave for a day and go wander around a new city, taking everything in and being at peace with your own thoughts. You can take pictures or sit down in cafes and write about everything you see, and don’t have to be on anyone’s schedule. It’s rare that we get these kind of moments back home, and we owe it to ourselves to have them once in a while, if it’s what we want.
5. Plane travel is an adventure in itself.
Just the act of getting in a plane and feeling it take off, or navigating the byzantine chaos of an airport in early morning, can be a thrilling experience that we easily forget we can have. There is something terribly frightening but also wonderfully life-affirming about the moments before takeoff, or the glimpses of patchwork fields you can get from over the wing. Even the often-disappointing selection of airplane food becomes something wonderful and exotic when you’re going somewhere you’ve been dreaming about for years. It’s a moment that means you got out, that you overcame the false starts, and that something new is waiting for you.
6. Once you get there, moving around is easier.
Take, for example, Europe. You come primarily to see Rome, but you want to get around and see other things. Between cheap train tickets with the 12-30 discount cards, incredibly cheap airlines that hop between European cities, and car shares that are easily accessible online and can cross entire countries in a few hours, there are limitless ways to get from one place to another once you’ve already taken the leap across the ocean. Whichever continent you’re headed to, though, you’ll find that (in many ways thanks to the internet) the means of shorter travel to make the most out of a single trip are growing exponentially every day.
7. You never know what will happen when you get there.
It’s so cliché, but it’s said often for a reason. You can spend years rationalizing how you aren’t missing that much by not going, or how you don’t want to risk not having a good time, or that you won’t know what to do when you get there, but the truth is you have no point of reference. The amount of incredible things that you could happen on your trip is literally unimaginable. You can say that you don’t need to see it, but you really have no way of knowing exactly what you’re missing out on.
8. You will invariably learn something about yourself.
It can be as simple as, “I can navigate a foreign city by myself and get around with a language book full of only useful phrases. I can use my limited skills to get good food, accommodations, and meet new friends.” Even this is an incredibly important and affirming thing to know about oneself, and the only way to learn it is to get out and see what happens when you try.
9. It’s good to get out.
No matter how much you love your current place of residence, it’s just all-around a good thing to get out every now and again and see some new surroundings. You are able to put some comparison up against the corner bars you are used to, the restaurants you frequent, the architecture you’re surrounded by, and the public transportation you use every day. While you may end up finding that you prefer where you came from, it’s nice to see just how much of our own cities we take for granted as being universal, and even how the buzz of a city around dusk can feel completely different in a climate which is almost identical. Cities have their own lives and personalities, and we sometimes forget that ours is far from being the only kind out there.
10. There are so many people you haven’t met yet.
Maybe you won’t meet the love of your life waiting to cross a street in a foreign city. Maybe you won’t have a whirlwind two weeks with them where you explore your new environment and learn the first fumbling steps of a new language. Maybe you won’t end up remembering this city for the rest of your life as the place where everything wonderful first began. But maybe you will, and that’s reason enough to go.
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