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Don't work illegally. It may seem easy (and is) but you never know the nightmare it can unleash. Travel is what you make it. You can travel without moving -
by zhte415 12y ago
Don't work illegally. It may seem easy (and is) but you never know the nightmare it can unleash.
Travel is what you make it. You can travel without moving - interact with different people locally. You can travel by changing career. It is simply a process of changing environment. Join a hiking group, a cooking club, even learn a new skill, 'push your bubble' - that is travel.
Travel the world... Take the decision carefully, but if travelling physically it is easy to not travel. Everywhere has a Starbucks to grab a coffee, apart from the places that don't, but if travelling to places that don't, is choice made simply because they don't have Starbucks and if that is in the decision chain, when why not travel to somewhere that does and not go to Starbucks? Is 9 months backpacking 'travel' when it is done with a group of similarly minded people with a half-hearted effort to learn a language?
Home is where the heart is. If you feel your heart is somewhere else, then travel to find it, it is simply a change in lifestyle, physical travel is often the opposite - a preservation of lifestyle in different conditions; without recognizing that, no change is gained.
- doorhammer 12y agoThis isn't terribly profound, but I think I just like to read books in different places. I enjoy it; it feels satisfying. The volume on that seems to edge up when I'm in a really different location, like another country. That's not a counterpoint to what you said. It's just what hit me, and I thought it was funny.
- zhte415 12y agoI totally agree. I love reading, and the impact it can have can really be influenced by environment. [My favourite place to read books is sitting at the back of a bus in a traffic jam in a tunnel that will last at least an hour, can get totally engrossed and know there's no escape, just me and the book, and the occasional bump of advancing in traffic.]
- partisan 12y agoI think part of the joy of traveling is leaving things behind including the distractions and worried that keep you from enjoying the things you love to do such as reading. Time seems to become your own again, because it is not fractured by the typical concerns. I always buy a new book or two when I go on vacation because I know I will find the time no matter what.
- doorhammer 12y agoYeah. Definitely. Usually part of the fun for me is finding a used book store wherever I'm at and exploring it. That was particularly interesting in Thailand, because one of the shop owners wanted to talk about buddhist philosophy and seeing the types of books they had around was really fascinating