On Travel

A video has gone, as the term goes, "viral" recently about travel. The creator cites what probably most travel enthusiasts' nerves got hit on; Work now travel later. Sure enough, the comments came crashing down and it's a torrent of millennial angst. It's easy to imagine the backlash with all of people's different interpretations and outlook about travelling.

 I think it's about intention.

 It's irresponsible to travel if you're in back-to-back credit card debts, or leave while your sons and daughters are unguided. To travel needlessly because of the attention, and the likes and follows, something's not quite right there.

 So travel, get away, set on your wanderlust but don't forget this is heightened. It's a peak experience. You still have to find meaning in the daily grind, the day-in and day-out. Not only on the days you're away. You're going to spend more time in the routinary and the non-peak experiences.

 If you do decide to travel, do it responsibly and wholeheartedly. Be aware of your surroundings. Feel the wind on your face. Maybe once while you're looking outwards at a beach with the sun setting down, or you're looking up at the lights of a city street while the moon glows at a distance, Stop. Look around. Maybe the thought hits you that this life is bigger than you. That this life isn't, in a sense, about you. 

 Not what you get out of it. But what you can do for it and other people around you.

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