We have touched on this topic a lot on Lucid Practice. In my opinion, this opinion-based judgement never gets old.
Tynan, gives his response on “What’s the point of traveling.“
I began really traveling due to panic, which may not have been the best reason to go. I had always thought of myself as the type of person who would travel the world, but at twenty-six, I had gone to only a handful of countries, and had never even been to Europe. Realizing that other people my age were traveling a lot, and I wasn’t, I sold everything and left with my friend Todd.
That first trip lasted nine months and fundamentally changed how I thought of travel. I set out in search of adventure and the title of “person who travels”, but I got a lot more out of it.
When you stay in your home country, it’s easy to completely avoid thinking of life beyond its borders. The way things were in America, I figured, was pretty much the way they were everywhere. Typical vacation travel also reinforces this view, because it hides the grit of every destination and serves up a sanitized version that largely reflects the country from which the vacationers came. In the worst cases, only a small injection of caricatured culture makes its way through the walls of the resort.
Real travel exposes the traveler to the details of life that compose the atmosphere of that country. Through that experience, one can begin to understand what life is actually like for the residents. You learn not only how they think and act differently, but why.
To see life from these different perspectives is to see the world in three dimensions. A contrast is provided against how you’ve always thought about and done things, which gives you the opportunity to examine those things.
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