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You keep hearing about people telling you to be a traveler instead of lingering around in the form of a tourist. Well, there is a great difference – in a tiny amount, that is. A traveler, from its basic definition in New Oxford American Dictionary, is a person who simply travels. A tourist, on the other hand, is a person who is traveling or visiting a place for pleasure. Make sense or what?
The discourse had been making rounds on online forums and travel conferences, clearly developing ingenious ideas and shrewd distinctions between the two monikers. It led us to create a quick reflection on ourselves, whether we fit the description of either a traveler or a tourist - whenever we go exploring or plainly sight surfing from our couch.
What makes it even more interesting (or shut-minded) is when almost all people had agreed to conclude the debate into one saying – be a traveler, not a tourist, in terms of traveling. Though we could have just dropped the subject by now and let it be washed off down the drain, yet we could not bear to see anyone to do their exploring stints in fear and cautiousness, afraid of everyone to see them as mere tourists or worst, traveling in the wrong way.
To tell you the truth, this is not the core point of traveling at all!
Travel should offer limitless boundaries of any undertaking and an unenclosed space for new knowledge and pleasure as well. It should be free and unyielding, instead of following the norms and predominance choices of the body.
Although there is nothing with coming out and carrying either a label or some kind of identity, however, what makes it totally erroneous is when people restrict themselves to what they love doing and losing their selves in the process.
‘You guys don’t understand! It’s the cliché! There’s a better choice!’ 
Yes, we understood every single fiber of it. And yes, we are aware of its savvy uptake. We are susceptible in making great and smart choices and that’s good. Each of us tends to differentiate every option to draw out better results and for our own self-satisfaction.
In this context, the ‘traveler’ concept pretty won the argument by the wise course of action oozing from it. Travelers have a propensity to explore the depths of a culture and beating away from the usual routes and bearing, whilst tourists are mostly guided and simply feasting their eyes with beauty. Often, travelers are entitled to be more curious and daring, giving tourists a bit shallow description and frail image.
Nonetheless, both are persons who want to travel and experience the world. We just need to remember that each of us is different and has unique preferences when it comes to traveling.
The most important of all…
is for you to feel the satisfaction and fulfillment while venturing on a journey. It’s the perks of traveling and might as well not lose its purpose in the first place.
We will be able to gain new perspectives, meet new friends and got to explore unknown places all in one jacketed odd ball. 
Your personal travels depend mostly on the places or situations and it is up to you if whether you would turn to a traveler mode or simply a tourist on foot. Yes, you could be either of the two and there is no (as of this writing) regulations or law to keep you within bounds on how you would travel. All that matters is for you to have a vivid outlook of exploration – and how marvelous and infinite it is.
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