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I said can be, not is very stressful. It's like our collective interest, startups: they can be very stressful, but also very rewarding. But there is still the
by JimboOmega 13y ago
I said can be, not is very stressful.
It's like our collective interest, startups: they can be very stressful, but also very rewarding.
But there is still the matter of properly appreciating the risk, and really understanding what you're getting into, and protecting your fundamental physical security.
There's a difference between committing to long hours of hard work with possibly no reward, and plunging yourself into debt by financing your business with credit cards. So it is with travel. It's easy to delude yourself into thinking that it'll all be fine if you just work hard and have an open mind.
I think people tend to vastly underestimate the stresses of travel (Especially past college age). Of course, people coming to the US often have one of the hardest times (thanks, immigration system!), but there are just all sort of pitfalls that you'd never worry about on a week or two vacation - work visas being just the beginning.
In other words, if you do it from a naive approach - without having considered some of the harsher realities of travel - you're going to have a bad time.
- gbog 13y ago> It's easy to delude yourself into thinking that it'll all be fine if you just work hard and have an open mind. Work hard? For travel? You mean work hard to learn foreign language etc.? For me that's not hard. There is nothing hard to work on when travelling. If getting interested in other culture and open minded to differences is something one needs to "work hard on", then it is much better to just not do it. And it is OK. It is OK not to like travelling around the world. For young people it may be uncool, but uncoolness is much preferable to self delusion. It is ok to prefer home's bed, and to be not able to take a shit on a squatty, it is ok to stay home. But if you travel, basic curiosity and interest in the others is largely enough. Then you just go and do not need to consider "harsher realities". After a while, you may round-trip and find yourself. http://chinaheritagenewsletter.anu.edu.au/tien-hsia.php?searchterm=030_ryckmans.inc&issue=030 http://chinaheritagenewsletter.anu.edu.au/tien-hsia.php?sear...
- mercer 13y agoI'm sorry, but I don't really understand what point you are making. For some people traveling is not hard. For some people traveling is hard. But even for those traveling might be well worth the difficulties. Many good things are hard. Now, personally I would argue people who say traveling isn't hard are wrong. I've traveled a lot, lived in a few quite different countries, and much as it's incredibly natural to me, it's often proven to be hard, much harder than staying in one place, in the culture most common to me...