Megan KennedyPros and cons off travelling solo..
July 16th 2008 12:53
I recently went out into the big bad world ALONE and realised all is not what it seems
Pro: You can adjust the truth of your living situation, marital status, job etc and there’s no one who knows any better. If you feel like it you change your life story as many times as you like, give yourself a new job, new name and invent a boyfriend, go right ahead.
Con: You plan to meet up with these unsuspecting people down the track and you then realise your little white lies will come back to haunt you. Especially if you’ve said you live in a city they are coming to visit where you don’t live and invited them to stay with you.
Pro: You meet a whole range of new people you wouldn’t give the time of day to if you had the safety of a friend by your side. It forces you to meet people, unless of course you enjoy lonliness.
Con:Whenever you say you’re travelling alone, at least one in every three will respond, with a gasp and then by, ‘Why? Why would you want to do that?” Um, I don’t know because then I can escape from people like you maybe.
Pro: You don’t get annoyed by your painful travel partner, because you don’t actually have one. You don’t get that feeling when you’ve been hanging out with the same person non stop and every little thing they do you want to kill them for.
Con: There is always a chance of being stuck next to an absolute idiot, psycho, annoying person on your flight, because you don’t have a travel buddy who will always be by your side, regardless of whether or not they’re annoying the hell out of you or not.
Pro: You can wear whatever you like, shoes aren’t even a necessity, showers either. No one’s they’re to judge you. Even if they do, you don’t know them so it becomes irrelevant.
Pro: A lot of alone time. Sometimes you even talk to yourself out loud just to make sure you still can, and have those ‘what does my voice sound like’ moments. Maybe that’s just me.
Con: It takes a damn long time to not feel like everyone is looking at you saying, ‘oh I feel sorry for her, she’s having dinner by herself,’ whenever you sit at a restaurant/café by yourself. But the reality is, no one really notices you. Sorry to burst your ‘but everyone takes notice of me’ bubble. However drinking alone is never fun and will never be deemed as socially acceptable.
Pro: You can book into wherever you want, whenever you want and do whatever you want and not have to take anyone else’s opinion into account. So you get to do absolutely everything you want to do and see.
Con: You’re charged more for accommodation and travelling packages. Apparently single beds are an annoyance. Or they assume no one would ever travel alone. Which brought my attention to ‘discrimination.’ However I checked the laws and it’s not illegal yet. Maybe not ethical or encouraging for lone travellers like my dear lonesome self, but apparently it gets the A, OK.
Pro: Despite being slightly daunting, having to walk into a room of five other people who are your new ‘dorm buddies,’ you make instant friends, purely because you’re in a dorm together.
Con: No one at home believes you when you claim to have met the ‘love of your life,’ because apparently you need photo evidence to back this claim up. Plain honest truth isn’t a viable response anymore.
Pro: You come back with loads of photos of your ‘new friends’ and everyone thinks your way popular.
Con: There is no one to take photos with, so it becomes a you and this monument album. My advice, don’t wear sunglasses which act as mirrors so everyone at home will know you’ve spent two weeks away taking photos of yourself.
Exhibit A:
It’s science
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