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Perfect timing as I'm going on a holiday next week and I don't know what I want to do yet. I travel because my friends live around the country. I have no other
by Paul_S 11y ago
Perfect timing as I'm going on a holiday next week and I don't know what I want to do yet.
I travel because my friends live around the country. I have no other good reason. I have lots of bad reasons though. Foremost is that my attitude changes once I no longer feel I'm at home. I don't know why that happens. I wouldn't go to a cafe/pub during the day in my hometown but I feel free to do so on my holidays. I chat people up, I meet strangers, I even hitch-hike. There is NOTHING stopping me from doing all this here, yet I don't. As soon as I get on a train and move a few dozen miles and I all my inhibitions are gone.
- alexashka 11y agoIt's pretty straight forward - you most likely won't see them again, so you feel free to burn bridges. You can burn some bridges where you live too, but then you'd have to deal with the consequences :) ps. This is why alcohol is so popular - it all of a sudden 'doesn't count' because it wasn't me, I was drunk :) How convenient
- ahuja_s 11y agoI don't know what is better about traveling (specifically the leisurely kind) - is it that there is some kind of comfort in escaping your daily life or is it the new experiences you find in a new place with new people? I know someone who goes from Singapore to Germany every year for pleasure. He has done it for the past 8 years. It's his "favorite" destination. I guess for someone like him absolute "newness" is less important but "escape" is more important. For others who live by the count of number of cities/countries/continents they have "covered" traveling seems to be a mission in itself. They travel for "newness". I would say that a common answer to the "why" might be that we all like to escape our lives at some point or the other. Traveling provides that along with entertainment.