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>> Traveling is so overrated it's insane. No it is not. It is only overrated for folks who are trying to "gain" something from it. >> Okay let's be honest for
by NTDF9 8y ago
>> Traveling is so overrated it's insane.
No it is not. It is only overrated for folks who are trying to "gain" something from it.
>> Okay let's be honest for a second what does most traveling boil down to?
The whole point of traveling is to be in an environment foreign to you. Interacting with locals, eating local food, trying local shit. This was all more fun before globalization since you couldn't fly into Phillipines and walk into a McDonalds. But now, you can and that reduces the charm.
You might find traveling overrated because it is monetarily and passport-wise easy for you.
You might find it overrated because even after going to a far away land, you're using uber to go from point A to point B instead of what locals use there.
You might find it overrated if you are trying to use traveling to make you feel special. You want to be the only instagrammer who has gone to Bali? Too bad, so many others have.
The real fun of traveling is really meeting people from around the world in a foreign land, doing local activities, seeing amazing sights (natural and man made) learning their way of life and opening mindsets. It's crazy how wonderful this little blue rock in space is.
- blondie9x 8y agoThe real question you have to ask yourself is why is it foreign to you? You are breathing air, eating food that boils down to the same components, you are experiencing gravity at the same rate, you are seeing one moon, you are seeing one sun, you are interacting with homo sapiens. The differences are mostly psychological perceptions where you are bored and want to feel something different.
- Fomite 8y ago"You are breathing air" - True, but it smells like a different place. "eating food that boils down to the same components" - Only in the most technically reductive sense. There is no locally sourced crocodile where I live. "eating food that boils down to the same components" - But entirely different stars "you are interacting with homo sapiens" - With cares and life experiences utterly different to my own.
- NTDF9 8y ago>> The differences are mostly psychological perceptions where you are bored and want to feel something different. Only if you have a shallow perception of differences. You need to engage. This is what your idea of traveling looks like (minimal interaction with locals, going to familiar brands, looking at everything from a sheltered familiar lens): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdSppr-ltd0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdSppr-ltd0 This is what fun, engaging and interesting traveling looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PJ7670mV6E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PJ7670mV6E You really have to enjoy getting out and meeting people for this to work. If you're only in it for social media or with a defeatist armchair philosophical perspective, it won't be fun.