What does travel do to the individual?
Last Friday night I went out for dinner with Julian, Wade and Matt and we started discussing travel and what it does or doesn't do to you as a person. This was an interesting topic because none of us have acually done that trip to the other side of the world that so many people do in their late teens or early 20's. We have all been so career focused. And funnily enough, we are all starting to now consider and even plan that much postponed trip.
So the question is: what does travel do to your personality - if anything? And what does it do to the way you perceive your world? Is travel as profound an experience as some would have you believe? Or is it simply something that one must experience in life?
And another thing: is travel relative? That is, to one person the trip of a lifetime could be say from Adelaide to The Gold Coast. Whereas to another, Sydney to Europe or the US would be a minimum distance to achieve that desired level of travel satisfaction.
We all had varying answers, but no-one was particularly passionate about one view or another. It ended up being more of a cyclone of ideas bouncing around the table. I suppose we will have to wait and see...!
2 Comments:
Well, from my experience, after going to a place you have always dreamed of, it leaves many impressions on the mind. But most of all, for me, I left wanting more and more. I couldnt think of anything better than walking around with my wife in New York City while snow is lightly falling down at midnight. Sound cliche? Try it...
Jim
For me it wasn't a huge life-changing or personality-changing experience... but I loved it... I love to travel... I love the feeling of being immersed in another world which I've imagined but never been part of... I love the way you see things and feel things which those who live there can never notice because of familiarity. I love the freedom of it - the displacement of self - the way everything else in life just kind of falls away and everthing is in the moment....
that's my 2 cents worth!
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