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- chossy
I have absolutely no desire to travel the world or see any of the seven wonders of the world, I was thinking about this last night. I really have no desires what so ever to go anywhere outside of my own island....
discuss?...
- _me_0
a little sad... how will you learn another point of view?
- utopian0
How big is your island?
- chossy0
I think learning another point of view is fairly straightforward and it would probably take a little longer than two weeks holiday. I'm just not really into holidaying and travel much.... if I take time off work it is usually because I need to due to something I am having to organise.
- paraselene0
travel and holiday are two different things.
- chossy0
Indeed paraselene, sometimes I think about going to somewhere, then when I go to book it I change my mind and don't bother. Would it make me a different person if I saw more of the world?... No I doubt it.
- kalkal0
Sounds boring
- ephix0
have you ever been overseas?
- hans_glib0
i think it's up to the individual. if you don't want to go abroad then don't. there's plenty enough to see and do in this fine sceptred isle of ours.
the people that really pee me off are thems that goes abroad just for "some sun" (or because they feel they ought to - well, everyone else does) and have no interest in the place they are going. they are nothing more than pollution - in all senses of the word.
if you're curious about the world we live in, then travel. if you're not, then don't. either way it's fine.
- chossy0
A few years ago I have been to France, Greece, Australia, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, England.
- paraselene0
i don't really take holidays. i travel when i get the chance between jobs, so that i can go for at least a month.
- chossy0
What do you enjoy about travelling Paraselene?, also what do you not enjoy about it please to be telling me?.
- paraselene0
i like getting out of the routine of my life and seeing new stuff. i like to try new food and see how people do things in other parts of the world.
i prefer to travel alone, so have run into a few dangerous situations in the past, which is less enjoyable.
- OBBTKN0
I think i understand you chossy... seems like people is obsesed with getting new experiences, like traveling constantly, knowing new people, new cultures, with anxiety.
If you don´t do those thing, you´re not alive! Looks like this times statemet.
I´ve traveled overseas, US, Aus... and known new people, new cultures... but nothing impresive, nothing i can not experience reading, viewing docus, or traveling with my mind < cheapest way of traveling
The people out there are not so different from us
Perhaps i´m feeded of this, i don´t know
- BaskerviIle0
I've travelled around a bit and enjoyed seeing some amazing countries/things/meeting interesting people. But also I get what you mean chossy.
There is nothing more boring than people who have just been travelling telling you all about how amazing it was, all the cultures they have seen, how limited our western ways are. As if they're the first person to travel.
I can understand it being impressive or exciting 100 years ago when travelling meant a long boat trip to get somewhere that really hadn't been documented, but now it's easy to go to most places (as long as you can afford the flight).
I think going to a completely different culture and living and working in a community for 2 or 3 years might give you a decent impression. But just visitng isn't going to let you truly experience the culture, you'll always been a tourist, an outsider.
People who travel around south east asia and australia for 6 months and return thinking they are 'wordly' or somehow have developed a new depth are just kidding themselves. They're usually back to normal after a few months back at work.
Don't get me wrong, I'd encourage anyone to go and travel and see more of this tiny planet, but just don't return with a superiority. Reading the right books will open your mind just as much if not a lot more.
- kelpie0
I haven't made it outside blighty in about 3 years now and I'm itching to get the hell off. I love being in new places where I don't speak much of the language and can see all the little differences in the way people live and interact with each other.
Cos I grew up in a tiny place I think the hugeness of the world has always really had that sense of wonder about it that I never lose. I've not had much of a chance to travel about, but have covered most of europe in my time and just getting away from Britain and Britishness is, for me, a massively rewarding exprience.
To each his own though choss, you'll never catch me half way up a cliff-face hanging on by my little finger!
- kelpie0
avoid trustafarian wanks who think that 3 months on daddy's credit card on an island in thailand makes them robinson crusoe, and you might get another perspective on why it feels good to be in other places.
"traveling about" and "Traveling, yah" are quite different things
- calcium0
BORING
I wish I could travel much more than I do. Actually if it was up to me, I would be a design carny just going from town to town making pretty pictures and eating local food.
- Nairn0
The gross majority of the people who 'travel' are sheep, pointlessly emitting carbon so they can check boxes on a list that makes up their middle class idyll.
If you've got no good reason to travel, don't.
If you're grounded and interested in life (and haven't spent the entirety of your existence in some rural hamlet, admittedly) you can learn 'new perspectives' and develop your self and your understanding of The Greater All.
It's not like all of the world's greatest thinkers needed to spend a few months twatting around South America or Asia on some Western consumer train to become what they were.
- tell that to marco polo you sedentary eco-cuntkelpie
- The man thieved pasta, man - he's not on my list.Nairn
- how very dare you. pasta is IM. PORTANTkelpie
- What's wrong with carbon? Stop repeating Labour propaganda you sheeple. CO2 makes jungle regrow, it's goodraf
- oh ffskelpie
- Away and drink your fluoride-free bottled water, you rense.com subscriber.Nairn
- Haha, your fart footprint just tripled, buddy!raf
- kelpie0
also - its completely human to want to move around, that's how we populated the planet, we're natural explorers as a survival mechanism. Homo Sapiens has built in itchy feet