How to decide on where to travel and our psychoanalysis

I recently got to travel... 7 days of escape, the place I chose was Sikkim and suddenly i realised we spend a lot of time planning our trip, i know we have these agencies to plan it, but let's face it how many of us want a strict itinerary, specially someone else deciding what time we need to wake up.

So post this travel I devised an efficient way to plan my trip... especially from start to finish, which means below questions were addressed:

1) when to travel

2) why to travel

3) expectations

4) when to go

and then multiple questions around HOW...

I have realised every season start makes us want to travel to destinations with last season, for e.g. as summers dawn on us we all head to mountains and colder locations, and as WINTER IS COMING we all visit places with summer left in them. I have spent days planning but finally go this simple pattern and trust me my planning time has reduced to half... i think this happens as human is always more stuck to past than embracing the future(few lines to justify why I added psychoanalysis to the post title).

So i think how I divide most locations in the world are as below categories:

1) fancy and predictable

    this has a laundry list of places where you can get 5 star properties, comfort and relaxation, here you can plan city tours and basically google things to do when in << xxx>> and you have the most trusted opinion of thousands like minded travellers.

2) travel

    these places cannot provide you those amenities, you go on and make your own itinerary, there are things to do available for these places as well but you can adhere to it based on your own capacity.

Now these two categories can very well overlap so i think its more of a mirror on our vision to look at locations like these two.

these days people travel a lot with better accessibility and off course well paying jobs and vehicles, but I always feel its more for their social circle then for their inner, so many pictures with so many smiles, which mostly make me feel that they never had a dull day, where as travel has to be a life experience and I can say this with complete surety that there is no absolute moment, but there is an absolute experience.

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Tips to travel:

decide what you want from you travel, if you want to just unwind, don't plan on a very far location, look for something nearby with less travel time.

if you want to gain an experience , then it can come if you see how life is in that part of world, so don stick to a pre decided itinerary, give your self space to choose randomly and have space in between to breathe around, talk to locals, there is no better way to know a place than to know the people.

But in all cases make memories, click pictures, get clicked but don look for that one perfect selfie, just let the pictures tell a story much closer to reality than those perfect selfies... but above all go with no expectations and come back with a bag full of kodak moments... ENJOY !!