One thing I've always valued about travel is that it breeds a certain resiliency and capability for adapting to change. You're taken out of your routine when you have to embark on a journey, and it's always possible that something won't go according to plan. Delays occur. Schedules change. Luggage gets left behind. Or, more positively, lovely surprises occur. New friends get made. New places that you didn't think existed are revealed to you. And we just learn to roll with it. Either we build better plans that can absorb these changes or we learn to make do with whatever the change gives us -- which is the way life operates once you look up above the day-to-day routine. Jobs dry up. New opportunities emerge. People come and go. And we learn or have trained ourselves to be open to all of that.

If anything, it's important to make the decision to travel. What happens after that is part of the experience.