The problem is thinking of travel as synonymous of pleasure. It is not. Travel is learning, going out the comfort zone, challenging your self and respect the places you are visiting. Going on vacation and traveling it is not the same in my opinion.
I like your latest Instagram post caption that goes along with your argument: "Don't tell me how many countries you have visited, tell me what you learned from them."
These days you’re made to feel as if traveling is the only thing that gives life value and if you don’t travel, or even worse don’t want to travel people think there is something wrong with you.
So true! People snob at the idea that you can be at peace and internally validated in your own country or region. Overly praise or disdain places they have only visited for a day or week. And passport stamps are won as symbols of status. I am not against travel but it shouldn’t be a measure of success.
i recently saw a picture of a dude in front of the great pyramid of gizeh, saying: "i am depressed, they said, take a trip, see the world, it will make you happy. here's a picture of me being depressed in egypt."
not the same for everyone, I travelled and moved 1000 km away from home and my entire life changed for the better. I would have probably gone insane living in that fucked up place by now, now I am happy and excited about every thing that comes along my way. back then I hated everything
@@xxxmmm3812 this has to do with reason you were depressed. Some might be depressed due to financial reason, other due to family/relationship issues, some do not like themselves, some do not like world, some do not know why they are depressed. Depending on type and severity travelling can be solution
I thought that I was crazy for not wanting to travel. I had people scold me for spending my money on "things" like books and custom made bookshelves instead of "experiences". Reading a book is an experience. Nature walks with my dogs are experiences. Going out to eat here is an experience. Spending hours crammed into a plane or train alone makes me shudder. I don't like crowded places (and let's be real: the common travel locations are crowded as fuck). I also just don't see any appeal in working myself to death all year to take that one expensive two week trip. I want to have lovely moments and enjoy my life all the time, not just once a year for two weeks. I love learning about the world. I just find it so much more comfortable to do it through books and documentaries.
@@dhruvshukla2389 Introverts unite! It's okay to not want or like to travel. It doesn't make you ignorant or a worse person than anyone else. We don't all have to like the same things.
@@mchobbit2951 Its moreover questionable why the average Joe should be visiting a random village in thailand. Poor villagers. Poor villagers they go through so much work and also now feed tourists making them gifts, they would feed their kids with to a stranger who could probaply buy them a complete new house.
I am becoming much more like this. My desire to travel has almost completely died and now I'm more focused on finding a retirement place where I can be a part of the community and just live a peaceful life enjoying nature, my friends and family and pets.
@@sml0266 That sounds lovely. It's okay to change. You presumably had your wild traveling days and grew tired of it as retirement is drawing near. I'm exploring my hometown and surrounding area as a tourist would this summer. It's interesting what you discover that way. Restaurants, museums and hiking paths you just always walked past or somehow never knew about.
I never cared for traveling very much. I've got what I need here. Not only do I feel alone in this, but some people don't believe me when I say I'm not into traveling. They pitty me for not seeing places. Apparently "learning" through traveling doesn't cure shallowness.
Same here, I find my every day life interesting enough, and travel is just a huge pain in the butt, it’s easy to feel your wrong for not wanting to travel but just remember there is a multi billion dollar industry conspiring to make you feel that way. People who love traveling are just like junkies seeking that next rise in brain chemicals and it’s like most things in life the more you get the more you want.
Yeah I'm the same. If I have time off work I like to keep it local. I simply like staying home and not waking up to an alarm clock. Going out for a hike or even just a trip to the neighborhood 7/11 for a snack. It's small stuff but it's the stuff I don't get to do in my day to day life and I enjoy that way more than travelling.
Agreed. Im good staying in my home-country because ive got everything i need here, Only people with no real hobbies think traveling is the only way to be happy
Ate at the famous restaurants, went to beautiful places, took pictures like Instagrammers, talking to strangers, yet I still miss my home the most, that emptiness was so real when I was wandering alone on the street. My friends always take pride of the places they went to and feel pity for me for not going, honestly I love listening to your adventurous story but I'm contented with my routine, eat well, spend time with my family, take a walk at the neighborhood and sleep well.
I enjoy travel but what pisses me off are people who went to the same destination and judges you for your own trip plan/decisions. They think they are better because they stayed and did more during a week when all I wanted is a nice 2-3 days in a city. Everyone has their own plans and its not always same except if we travel together. Everyone has their own travel budgets, schedule, and ideas of what makes them happy. Those elitists are annoying, and maybe deep down unhappy since it seems they are in a contest to get more selfies or points on a map. IDK lol.
Most people wouldn't travel if they weren't allowed to bring their phones. This is how it usually goes: 1. You excitingly plan for months 2. At arrival, you instantly post the location filter so people know 3. You take videos on the way to the hotel, then scroll on your phone to see what everyone else is dong 4. Go out for dinner, drinks, club. Posting all throughout 5. Trips over then you go back to your miserable life, hoping to plan other trip to feel a hit of dopamine again
You are exactly right. And you could just go to places locally for free to get that hit of dopamine. We are programmed by big business to think we need to travel to be happy, all while making others rich and us poor
Majority of the people who do this are trying to make money on followers or have mental issues. In other words they need reassurance. In any case, other than using their phone as a camera or video to capture genuine moments, it's best to stay off social media when you're traveling
Exactly but it's not a problem in the long run. In the modern world travel is the only time we have to take a moment and find out who we really are, and what we really want. The dream of numbing out in paradise for a few weeks is boring and a waste in comparison to getting closer to yourself and all the possibilities that brings to ones life.
I highly disagree on this. When travellling, every mundane task seems like a triumph - ordering a coffee in a foreign language, finding your way to a specific sight using only your common sense and a map or vice versa getting hopelessly lost turns into an adventure. And it's amazingly therapeutic, both if you have someone to share the experience with, or if you're on your own and can thank yourself for accomplishing something rather minor.
funny, in my experience what you'd call a "triumph" I call an exhausting menial task. I can roam the streets of belgium in Google street view thank you very much, and when I get tired of that I can have my own favourite coffee in my own comfortable home.
Only thinking about that gives me anxiety. Ok, even after you have done all these, you go home to your boring repeating routine with less money and more depresseing thoughts. But hey, you ordered a coffee in french woah
Travelling can be much cheaper than living the mundane life. If you sleep in hostels for 10 dollars a day like i did for years. Living in the city has ruined me
Well depends on how you live. If you bought an expensive car/house, eat out a lot, you could buy something cheaper, live a simpler lifestyle and travel more.
The cost and the fact it’s just momentary, you get home it’s over and all that is left are sone hazy memories and pictures no one else is interested in.
I get the point. Sometimes you'll travel to a place on your vacation that might seem so awesome that you think that if you could live there, you'd be happy for the rest of your life. But that's only because you haven't been there long enough to get sick of it.
While I understand you guys were going for a video to try and lower expectations a bit of people who wish to travel, it's also important to point out the good things of travelling. They say 'travel broadens the mind' and it's true. Traveling helps you experience a different culture and opens your mind up to a different way of living and thinking. It's one thing to see a foreign city or country in pictures and movies, it's better to experience it in person. You get to see it all, the ugliness as well as the beauty. Everyone should experience 'culture shock' at least once in their lives to make yourself more humble and appreciate what you have back home.
As romantic as that sounds, sometimes traveling has the opposite effect. Some people decide midway that they would rather be at home. Sometimes people find the local cuisine disgusting and make a beeline for McDonalds. Whether or not these experiences "opens up their minds" is up to them, but it would probably just end up being an anecdote to tell their friends back home.
Palkys wow that's the most sour comment I've read in a long time. People who can afford to travel are likely shallower than those who cannot? ... Just WOW
I completely agree with Palkys’ comments. Travel can open up your mind, but that requires willingness and proper planning that actually lets you experience something new. There are increasingly many ways to gain equivalent experiences at home though.
Sometimes travel can feel dreamy. That is until a certain destination's mysticism starts wearing off. But then again at that point, you learned about a new place.
TheExplorer well, if you hate it so much don't do it. But for the same reason you don't want other people telling you to travel, don't tell others that they shouldn't travel just because you happened to have crappy travelling experiences
Yep I planned on a year backpacking in Asia got through eight months and was really homesick and it started to seem mundane I would arrive somewhere and be like yep temple check funky hostel with place to wash underwear check central business district check tourist market check local bars check little tiny stools to sit on and eat noodles check, speaking to locals in local language and have them pat my head and I am amazing check. However this is my experience individual results may vary now I prefer short breaks and a bit more luxury
The irony is they travel to places where people are stone-still meditators and have never left their village. I wouldn’t be so blunt if travellers didn’t “start it”.
The conclusion is something I have experienced myself after decades of travelling and for whose truth I can vouch for: in daydreaming of a location we have experienced the best this location has to offer us. Such a wise thing to articulate. That is why I have stopped travelling. I also love Pessoa’s thoughts on the subject: “In Madrid, Berlin, Persia, China, and at the North or South Pole, where would I be but in myself, and in my particular type of sensations? If I imagine, I see. What more do I do when I travel? Only extreme poverty of the imagination justifies having to travel to feel.”
I think this video is trying to point out that traveling is not the best thing in life, as media (specially social media) tries to tell us every day. It's easy to make others frustrated when they can't go somewhere (because of money, responsibilities, etc.) and being reminded how "life-changing", "essential" and "awesome" it is doesn't help. This doesn't mean that traveling is bad or boring, just that maybe it's not what's missing from our lives, and if we go somewhere hoping to "find ourselves" it may let us down.
I have traveled to both Italy and Greece on separate occasions for weeks at a time. I'm from the US. Traveling to those places was unlike anything I've ever experienced at home. Nothing can compare to the experience of tasting cornerstore pizza in Rome, or having a frappe in Athens. These things aren't snapshot moments, but they're also experiences that would be hard to get in the US. Traveling is a collection of experiences--it's not only a mental snapshot of a particular scene at the beach. It's the beach, the drive there, and the drive "home". Of course if you have inherent issues already before traveling, traveling will not magically fix them. But traveling can also give you a new experience at a culture that you haven't ever thought of.
Travelling is amazing. But more often, if you aren't happy where you are now, you also, very likely, won't be happy somewhere else. It's, typically, about mindsets. Happiness comes from within ❤️
people lost the meaning of traveling / vacation. The purpose is to learn to get ideas to make your place better with the ideas you obtained. Even the original meaning of leisure time meant to use your free time to learn which so many forgot or did not know.
However sometimes the new definition of leisure time fits the spiritual view of living in the moment and simply enjoying the mundane, far more, so it can go both ways clearly.
Henry David Thoreau touched on this problem in Walden; "I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways." For Walden, the world of his small home town in Massachusetts was detailed and fascinating enough by dint of simply existing, and he felt that true happiness and understanding was found, not by gallivanting all over the world, but by studying the marvels of creation as they manifest themselves right in front of you. For him, the greatest journeys lay inside the individual, and any external traveling was, at best, a tool for self-analysis, and at worst, a shallow distraction from the inner work that needed to be done.
Personally, it's not the insta-worthy views that make me love travel; it's all of the little incidental discoveries about the worlds of other people. There are few greater joys than that of walking around a foreign supermarket and marvelling at the weird and wonderful packages.
This video isn't supposed to make you hate travelling, but I think it's trying to articulate the weird sense of disappointment some of us feel when we travel, and the reason why travelling may not be for everyone. If you love to travel and you experience good things while travelling, *that is still valid*. It's just that for those of us who don't experience all those good things, who feel nervous about travelling, or disillusioned or out of place or whatever..those feelings are valid as well.
Well put. Travel is not for everyone. I love it. Almost always. But what's amazing for me can be frustrating, scary or boring for someone else. Definitely don't travel just to follow a crowd, or create a fake insta life.
Now I have something that I can shove on people's faces when they ask me in utter disbelief, "How can you not like travelling?" Seriously, that's so annoying. 😑
I think what the video discusses is mostly subconscious. I noticed that a lot of the comments argue that they travel to learn rather than for vacation, which is different. However, it's still subconscious idea that being at a place in a picture (mental postcard) will be more special in person. Anyone can learn as much if not more from just reading a book. Learning can cost just a few dollars in paperback versus thousands in flight and accommodation expenses.
This is something I ALWAYS felt and nobody else ever seemed to feel this way. I always felt travel was more hassle than fun. Because I carried my anxiety, my insecurities, my compulsions along. I am at a better place now. A place where I can enjoy travel for what it is. I don't think this video aims to discourage travel. Just that, it has become over rated off late. And also, we do, many a times, end up torturing ourselves by travelling.
@@thepastelthread5963 i am sorry about how vague my comment was. 2 years later - i am in a place where i actually enjoy travel. But at times i still go that place, the place where i believe i'm torturing myself by travelling. what i meant by torture was : When you travel - you are far from your daily comforts (your bed, the lighting you like, your home, the familiarity, the security); you are hugely out of your comfort zone (new language, culture, rules etc.) Sure, you might stay in a luxurious hotel and actually have more comforts than your own home - but at the end of the day travel = wasting time and money; a luxury many don't have. By glamorizing travel, it adds unnecessary pressure on people who cant afford these. I look at travel more as an adventure. Now, everyone has a different definition of torture. This is mine. I definitely dont discourage travel. But excessive travel - yes, over glamorizing travel - yes.
I guess I am on the only one in the comments that agrees with the video. Unpopular as this opinion might be, it is true that we hype up the places we go on holiday in our heads. How many times have we said "the view/food/people/hotel etc etc was not what I expected"? This is not to say that the holiday was bad overall--it's just that expectations never usually match reality. And don't give me the whole tourist vs traveller crap. Travel is a personal thing, we all have our styles and preferences. There is no one right way to travel.
namehere Exactly why I don't have expectations anymore. It only sets you up to be let down because the trip wasn't what you envisioned in your head. Expect the worst, and be pleasantly surprised when it doesn't come to fruition.
try stoicism ;) its the problem which lies in expectations at all! had a huge fight with you family to christmas? guess what, you had to high expectation from anyone else!
I hate traveling, I am the only one? I have no desire to travel anymore outside my country. Just wasting money on one week vacation... I designed my life when everyday is vacation...
Im with you man. Traveling is fucking overrated like people only wanna go to new countries only to impress others by taking some pointless seflies and shit even when you know traveling puts you’re life on the line it aint worth it. More people should be happy with everything they have in they’re home-country cause traveling doesnt really make you’re happy on the fact that you live you’re life temporarily which ironically is worse cause you know you feeling happy being at new countries doesnt last long
I mean if you can't see beauty where you are it seems pointless to think that another country will change that... Innerpeace and beauty can be found anywhere.
These moments of bliss - sunset, the roar of a waterfall, the first surf at your feet, a smile from a gorgeous person - are part of what makes travel so attractive. But, there is so much more. Positive moments, like meeting new people. With time, patience, effort and respect, we can even form friendships and learn from one another. But also more difficult moments which test us and make us challenge our assumptions; they can help us learn and grow. That feeling of loneliness, disorientation or even despair that so often happens during travel is as valuable as that golden beach moment. I have been robbed by armed children high on glue, a moment that terrified and shocked me but also taught me about safety while travelling. And it made me see more of the inequality and callous abuse of power by those older, or more powerful than us, who often also feel they have no other choice or have become numb to it all. Here I mean not just the old man leading this kids, but the police, the elites in that country dodging their responsibilities and the wealthy tourists, like me. I am not rich, but I am much wealthier than these kids and probably their master too. And as a money-carrying tourist the police will choose my side over over these children anytime. I have been stuck on the wrong side of the highway when hitchhiking in Germany and Norway, tired and not getting a car. These were tough, difficult moments, especially mentally. They were not fun. But I got through them and I learned things about my inner resilience. I got through that moment and through the night that followed and I will do so again if need be. I experienced the weird reality of having a confusing mixed status as an obviously white man who obviously did not have much money. I was in Tanzania, shabbily dressed, with my Tanzanian girlfriend, who was poor, next to me. In Tanzania both wealth and whiteness are accorded status and their opposites are accorded very much lower ranks. Usually, my whiteness would win out and i would be accorded high status. But sometimes my poor looks won and things became really interesting :-) I have come to value these tough, difficult moments. They are usually not fun, but i have learned much from them, about myself and about the world. That, to me, is more valuable than that coconut-on-the-golden-beach-with-blue-sky moment. But I still long for such moments on the beach 😊
Yes I know what this guy is talking about! When I went to Mexico and the Dominican I remember carrying a lot of mental baggage in the form of regret. I did enjoy my trips but I felt I couldn't enjoy it fully because of the events that happened in my life. You must find happiness within first and then go travelling. Nothing in the outside world will give you true happiness. You only achieve a higher vibration if you look within and begin to like yourself! Crazy good video!!!
The older I get, the less I want to travel. I can simply watch a documentary from the comfort of my own home. I can travel anywhere thanks to Google, and the internet.
Travelling is not really about seeing things but rather than experiencing things. It is about having an open mind and go with the flow, connect with people you would never have met otherwise using the universal language of smile! I did a round the world trip for a year and it is one of the best experiences I had so far. Yes, I slept in crappy hotels, met crazy taxi drivers, saw poverty, got terribly sick but guess what? It Was A Part Of The experience itself, a part that changes your perspective on the world. With that say met numerous tourists just doing exactly what they use to do at home with the same kind of people. I guess this video is made for them :-)
"don't need the funny moment repeated over and over again" Yeah tell that to the garbage FUNNY GIFS 2017 COMPILATION/TRY NOT TO LAUGH videos all over TH-cam
BRILLIANT!! Thank you for beautifully articulating why I don't travel. I might also say that relationships are exactly the same. Reality never lives up to my expectations, hence why expectations are the cause of all misery.
The reality of our dreams and fantasies are always depressing but without the experience of being where or how you want you won't learn to love or like or even miss the reality of anything. Like i want to go to NY yes dirty busy weird new york but that's what i'm going for all of it not only the picturesque parts.
Will McEwan I'm almost blind. He's a bit wrong and a bit right.... but it's easier than it sounds. Just remember you have to live in your skin. Easier for me.
It's not depressing at all. You get to go places with yourself. Hardly 'your' experience if you weren't there to experience it. Travel provides a great opportunity for self reflection, observation and future planing. It gives the time to learn about oneself and develop oneself, also to see the patterns that make us unhappy overseas and at home so we may unwind them to be happier when we return.
I find the opposite. I'm a different person when I travel. A better person. More open-minded, optimistic, prone to moments of wonder and insight. I come back different too. As Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
This video should be called "The problem with travelling to escape your sad, pathetic life". Many others travel not as a reprieve from their lives, but for a plethora of positive reasons. Friends abroad. Food adventure. Learning about new culture. Seeing that people across the world aren't exactly different than us, and inspiring ourselves to come home enlightened about ourselves. You can't just tell people traveling is bad when it actually improves our ability to live without prejuduce. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Could be a good thing for our times.
the more I think about it, the more I realize that up until very recently travel was a scary and treacherous task. I bet people hardly ever traveled anywhere for "vacation" I'm guessing it was only out of necessity. what do you think?
Jackal Unleashed Also, leisure time as we have today didn't exist - people just worked, ate, slept. Earlier on, travel was exploration and, as you said, dangerous. Now travel is performance: carefully edited pictures and footage for public consumption 😊
I agree. went through the same think during my travels. people are always like "I wanna go to Hawaii my life would be so much better" but you know what. there are people who are depressed in Hawaii. people who work and live there. its just another place with nicer weather. if you feel like you need to get out of your city and be somewhere else there*s something to deal with at home that you're supressing. you will eventually have to deal with it once you get home or you'll never be happy. don't get me wrong - I love traveling and think its healthy, but don't do it because you're trying to run away from something.
This is so unbelievably pessimistic. As a globe-trotter myself, I wholeheartedly disagree with the notion that all a place has to offer is its image. The mere atmosphere of somewhere new is exciting, let alone any quantifiable sensations!
the nature of us humans is that we are fickle, restless, bored...i have recently questioned this about myself. the sooner we realise this and that we are helpless to such feelings (even with change), the sooner we can be free from being irritated by them and live intentionally the way we want.
So that's why I never fully enjoyed travelling while I was dragged along with family when I was younger. Seems like there's really no running away from oneself, no matter where to.
Um, no. Yes, a lot of people have a warped view of travel because all they see is other people's Instagram posts where they are smiling on a beautiful beach while sipping Pina Coladas, and we are completely unaware of the fact that just 15 minutes later the sunny weather turned to a thunderstorm and their day went to shit, but that is not a problem with travel; it's a problem with expectations from travel. Every year for the past 12 years I've gone on at least one long 3-4 week vacation to a wonderfully exotic destination, and every few months I'll make an effort to go on a shorter vacation somewhere closer to home (Generally continental Europe). Both I and the people I took along with me loved every single one of those travels, but I also realised why so many said that their own holidays were never as good as the ones that I brought them along on. People expect to look at a few pictures, book a hotel, a flight, and have the time of their lives. Going on a good holiday couldn't be further from that. Going on a holiday means reading around 12-15 travel books of 400-1000 pages each (I would recommend a combination of Lonely Planet with National Geographic Explorer), reading hundreds of reviews, making a list of around 30 things/ day you'd want to do, cutting those 30 things to the 7 or 8 which you think are the most worthwhile, fitting them all together so that no time is wasted, creating a route, reading more reviews because now you've gotta choose hotels, deciding if you're gonna use public transport or rent a car, deciding if you think you're gonna need to book a tour for anything you want to visit, looking for places to eat that fit your budget, tastes and allotted time and then maybe leaving around 2-3 hours spare each day so that you can spend a bit more time if you come across a particularly great thing that you want to spend more time with. Most people's travels suck not because they bring themselves along, but because they book 10 days in Rome when the only thing they know about Rome is the fact that Colosseum and Roman Forum are there. Then they show up, view those things within a day or two, eat in some tourist trap, and then go on some random and undoubtedly boring tour organised by some shitty agency for the next few days. Of course they will then go back to worrying about their job and the problems of daily life; how could they not? They've got nothing to do. It's sad to see you clearly identify the end problem of what makes the travels of so many bad, while failing to notice that the underlying problem is not that fact that you're along for the ride, rather the fact that you likely failed to put in the hundreds of hours of effort to plan out a great holiday. A good holiday is a 10 day escape that keeps you engaged, entertained, in awe or filled to the brim with expectation for most of the time. It takes about 3-6 months of daily work to plan out a 1-week vacation or about 12 to 18 months to plan out a 2-3 week one. If you do it right, you won't have time to worry about your problems or to notice the ugly garbage on the floor because you'll be moving from car to museum to monument to restaurant to car to hike to the hotel with no wasted time. It's not a dream that post cards fool us into believing, it is something that anyone can enjoy and something that you will not regret spending money on. It just takes a lot of effort to do. It is in many ways analogous to writing the scrip for a play; behind the 2 hours of perfect direction and storytelling are hundreads of hours of scrapped ideas. The same is true for travelling. Sadly, by not confronting people about that good travelling takes effort, and instead telling them that what is ruining their travels is something inherent to travelling, so many of the people watching this will never get to enjoy the wonderful experience of leaving all your problems behind for 3 weeks and just taking in the culture, beauty, landscape and food of a foreign place.
If you travel only to get royal treatment, you will relate to this. But if you want to see the world through your own eyes and have nourishing and not-so-instagram-like experiences, traveling is one of the best things you can do.
I've tried it and it wasn't for me. of the 6 or so international trips I've been on, I've never felt satisfied by them. how can you learn a culture in a couple weeks? how can you connect with people you can't talk to? I'd rather see it all on VR from the comfort of my home.
How can you learn a culture in a couple of weeks? You cannot. But you can certainly immerse yourself in it. Step 1 is buying food where the locals do and only where the locals do. Step 2 is bedding down where the locals do, not in zoned hotel spaces, but in homestays. And so on and so forth. Basically, you have to note that you are walking in the direction of a tourist destination and quickly do an about-face and walk the other way. Oh, and meet the locals. Talk to them. Listen to their stories. The locals are your 'tourist attraction', not museums.
@@JenniLevenbookI've lived in two different countries. 2 weeks is not enough to fully immerse yourself in their culture. It takes about at least a year to have deep understanding. You'll only have a shallow understanding in short of period of time. Travelling is mostly for privileged people that people from poor countries could ever dream of. So no being in 20 different countries just means you're rich and it's somewhat classiest to those who live in poorer countries.
I think the video is speaking to certain people that we have all seen: participating in cookie cutter trips, getting on and off tourist buses to snap photos, always opting for their home country cuisine (or fast food)...etc We all know in theory travelling is supposed to revitalize us and broaden our horizon. But in reality when people get home from a trip, a lot of times the only thing they bring with them is exhaustion and some superficial knowledge of another culture.
I think the point of this video should be that people shouldn't expect to gain happiness and fulfillment through travel, even though they may experience both of these emotions. Travel can be wonderful but by living for travel (or anything for that matter), we fail to be present in our lives and miss out on so much.
I don't think the video is being negative, it's just saying to be realistic about travel. Travel is not really "vacation"; it involves the reality of logistics, physical demand, and emotional expectation. It doesn't necessarily make you smarter or enriched. I've been to four countries in the last year and even moved to Japan, and I find the video's general message to be true, but not pessimistic. We feel accomplished in going through the act of travel, but we really end up looking for the same things to survive to see something for a short time. Good feelings and memories of a place comes more from the people you're with or who you meet, not the 'place' in of itself. I like travel as much as anybody, but this is the reality.
Here's my take on travel. I think traveling is done more to benefit and satisfy one self, more so than care for the places visited, like for selfish reasons you might say. Pictures of places you visited are like trophies to show off. We travel to feel special and receive attention. When you're a traveler and guest, you are treated nicely, but if you were to live next to or with those same people everyday, it would be different. Also, the many popular and great places you want to see, are ruined by hordes of tourists just like you wanting to see them. Happy travels!
I think he is just implying that some people (not all) travel as a means to get away from themselves, but fail thinking that traveling will complete them self. Im sure this applies to some not all. Some people on social media post up all of the glamorous pictures of their travels leaving the story of them getting to their destination behind. I probably have a biased opinion because it hits close to home for me and also makes me think about someone awesome that I used to know...
so true! I was lucky to have married well and traveled extensively in my 20s, 30s. Having been to almost every place I desired, now in my mid 40s, I have almost zero desire to travel abroad again. The hassles, physical stress and anxiety outweigh the fleeting, fuzzy memories. But that’s just me. 😎
Thats why I never "bring myself" so by doing that I can have the most geniune experience to fully be there. Rarely take pictures too. I think that everytime you are trying to record that moment. You are anywhere but there...
I think you misunderstood. "bringing yourself" also includes things like your physical state, such as "oh man the view from this mountain is great but I actually should have eaten more at lunch because I'm now very hungry and its quite distracting me from appreciating this view" or "I've broken my glasses and will have to locate a person in this rural region who can repair them or give me new ones, this will take a lot of time I hadn't planned" or "I thought this boat ride through the islands would be really scenic, however I didn't realize it would make me quite so seasick" or "I'm in a foreign country and I have spent half my vacation time in bed with food poisoning" or "I really brought the wrong shoes for this walk, my feet are hurting but the tour isn't over".
@@zurechtweiser I focus on the whole experience, from the time I leave my house I'm an entirely new person and all I want to do is to perceive the environment and the culture that I'm around, and whatever it is that may happen even if it is not pleasant. Only when I arrive back home that I take a couple of days off to remember what I did, I don't even try to plan too much because once you do that you are enclosuring yourself within a specific boundary, we are beings that live and learn and react with the world based on experience. To bring yourself is like using a colorful glasses to watch a picture, you are not perceiving it as it is but through the lenses of that person that came with you on the trip. Be on the moment. It will change you and the way you experience everything around.
I travel for education, adventure, and local foods and music. I've been doing it a few times a year for about two decades now. Never interested in merely relaxing at a beach all day. Those "hardships" mentioned in this video are expected, and quite frankly, all part of the adventure. To smack my life out of the routine I'm used to at home. Like anything in life - your mindset determines what you'll get out of it. This video seems to be from someone with a negative depressing mindset on things. Or, perhaps, someone desperate for "unique" youtube content?
I like traveling to try local foods as well :) I haven't been to many places yet since I'm only 18 but I get pretty excited when trying new foods (That's why being in an Airplane never bothered me since they tend to have food I've never had before :P) The video does seem really pessimistic about traveling :/
I completely agree... anyone who has done any sort of international traveling outside of just sitting at a beach resort already knows that traveling is not all glamorous and much of it can be monotonous and even irritating. The reason people travel is to break the day to day cycle and try to learn more about themselves and the places and people they visit.
@Not Right Music. Then you forget that not everyone is you. A lot of people who travels have a very idealistic view of traveling and often take the easiest way out and staying in the best location of the place which usually means sheltered from all the problems the country have. The activities they engaged are predominately just shopping. Something which they can do in their own country. This video is a good video for people who do not think like you and not yet realize what they think about traveling is, are nothing but a fabrication of their own idealistic view. The video talks about the mindset of those people Not of those who think like you who doesn't need this video to realize that travelling is a education process.
I think it was clear enough. It is the expectation that "traveling" in the proposed sense (see a picture that looks amazing and buy into it) will be a fix to many things (whatever they may be: emotions, feelings, character, fun, etc). Like seeing somebody snowboarding and you jump into it, sure it looks awesome and refreshing, but the reality is, the first time ever it will be painful, full of dangerous falls, one or two concussions, maybe even a blackout, sweating, fear and pain at -15C... for me it became the best thing ever, sure, but not for most. Especially when there is a very well oiled machine putting very well crafted pictures for us to consume (as opposed to long infinite video playback of a succession single things like most of the travel will be), social media people showing ONLY the VERY positive few key moments, etc. It also helps maybe understand on a trend I have seen lately, quite a few friends (mostly women closing on their 30s), are down to travel like it was crack. And if not traveling, they are planning the next travel. They say if they could be traveling 8months of the year they would do it... the way it's conveyed, makes me question what is it they are escaping from? 8months? why not move to this random place better then and travel back to your city sometimes? This puts a different light, it's not what do we try to escape from, it's more "what are we chasing". Traveling for education, adventure, foods and music is a more complete and honest approach in my opinion. Especially if it is clear that sometimes it could be a botched adventure with more hardships than leisure.
Kudos again to the School of life. It's one of my favorites and I keep recommending the channel to friends .Wonderfully articulated. Loved it! There were a couple of my opinions which I couldn't exactly find concrete words to express. This video solves that. Also, in today's world with the internet on our fingertips and so many shows and magazines, would you rather watch or read 20 hrs of exhilarating premium content or travel and sleep for 13 and visit actual attractios for 7 hours.. Where also you would end up looking at those waves for much more than a few minutes by the same spot you are on the beach... Think about it..
this is what I have been pondering about. I can no longer travel if I am not going to live in that city for a year. it feels very inefficient to bring a small bag and cram every single place into a one week trip hoping that it will change my life. reality is the beauty of a place only helps me in healing when I can savour the beauty of the place. I am excited to take next steps to fulfilling this goal. thank you for the insight ✨✨
I had the same condition as Walter for 20 years and that’s why I can’t understand the travelling hype lol, it’s definitely taught me far more about appreciating the moment through your mind than I’m sure a lot of travellers will understand. I don’t even want to compare, but as travelling people always do that, I might as well lay it out there. The true adventurer finds passion in everything and does not put life into expectations and boxes, like a child brought to life.
Travel can be hard. Over the years I developed some kind of odd whimsy with travel. It took me years and to find something incredible even in the mundane has to be trained. Pick a snack you don’t get very often. Download movies or shows that you don’t usually see. Find something new to explore. It is those moments that I find the most rewarding. And hold no expectations. When flying or driving, be calm and flexible. I’ve had to take different routes. If you miss one thing, another will pop-up surprise you. Having a little bit of whimsy and no expectations has brought a true enjoyment to travel.
I'm not sure I agree fully with this. I want to travel somewhere to get a change of scenery and to explore and see what is going on. I want to see different fauna and animal life than the same old, meet different people. As someone who comes from a very small town in an already small country. Going on an adventure is something I dream about and frankly if it weren't for money I would have done so already. Then again my trip would last a year at least and I'm not sure it's quite the same as a week travel.
Of course I'm just speaking for myself, but I find this holds true of my relationships with the people I love too. When I think about a relative or friend I haven't seen in a long while, I often find myself recalling a fleeting happy moment or even a photograph of them I particularly like. And then when I am finally reunited with them, I can usually only stand about 2 or 3 days of togetherness before I long for my quieter routine.
I don't feel this way at all! Seeing in person is way better. Breathe in the air, relax, leave who you are at home. Anxieties may still linger but I feel at peace in a place where no one knows my name.
Don't travel like the narrator implies in this video. Don't go somewhere to "get away". Go to wander, like your name implies. Go to immerse yourself in another culture in another place. I don't see this video as saying one shouldn't travel, just that one shouldn't travel to get away from something else, because you will most likely be dragging that something else with you anyway. Often though, seeing things from a different perspective, in this case your usual surroundings or the people in your life, can help you to tackle your problems or at the very least allow you to make peace with others. Most importantly though, don't try to record every moment of your trip with a camera, LIVE it! Traveling can be wonderful!
Wanderer Allow yourself to be excited and enjoy new experiences! It's totally worth it, I assure you. Don't let others' miserableness make your joy vanish!
The main takeaway of this video is not "don't travel" but rather, recognize that like anything else that is new, that feeling eventually wears off. However, just because the feeling wears off, that doesn't mean you can't take a minute to really take in where you are and experience it for what it is. You've endured hours of sitting in a overly cramped plane, and you are now in a different place entirely! This is something to experience and enjoy because until a century ago, it wasn't considered possible to transport large amounts of people to a different location. Don't let this video dissuade you from not travelling. Just recognize why you are making this decision.
Ignore the video. Yes, you will see good and bad stuff on your trip. That's how life is, but usually the good things you'll see will outweigh the bad. At least that's how I see it. I actually like I'm high on life when travel and I feel so humbled by the experience. I think it's the greatest thing there is.
Traveling experience is so weird and mix of feeling for me. I do like seeing new places and seeing everything new. But it can be so tiring and hectic cause of the journey. I also lose stuff like glasses or hat because you carry a lot of stuff u even forget ur own stuff. It is a short term pleasure so it doesnt make us happy for long time.
The sad fact of seeing the beaches with trash all over it, or sad little hotel room, is part of journey. This video is only for those that have romanticized the perfect vacation only to be disappointed when reality sets in. I once paid $100 for a meal that I was looking forward to, only to be disappointed. Do i get down about it? no. My curiosity of a certain dish wouldn't have been sated even if you had simply told me, it's not as great as you think. It's only when I try it, that I truly experience life. Least we all just live vicariously through youtube videos and never actually live a little.
Most travel that people do, especially the travel that young people do, isn't travel. It's hedonism. Drinking and partying, going to a resort and being totally pampered, That's not really "travelling" If I want to experience pleasure and just be pampered, I don't have to travel very far for that...
I'm glad you brought this up. There's a reason our word 'travel' comes from the Middle French 'travail'. Yeah, it's great. Get strip-searched coming and going twice. Find yourself delayed or stranded by some natural catastrophe or instance of social upheaval. Or clapped into the local gaol over some perceived violation. Nearly everywhere you go anymore, what you experience are the local peculiarities for the implementation of Agenda 21/2030. I live in one of the renowned tourism hotspot destinations, and what I see all the time is a bunch of people knocking themselves out TRYING to have a good time....
I experience all of these factors every time I travel. Yet I save my money and travel every 6 months. I am addicted to travel. The worse part of traveling is post trip depression and guilt. I have spend over $45,000 in 7 years on traveling. I even did some illegal things to sort my traveling addiction. Do I recommend traveling no. It is like getting one tattoo, then you can not stop tattooing yourself causing waste of your beautiful skin and thousands of dollars. I just want to die on one of my trips and my soul will be rest in peace.
For me, what's wrong with travel is that we get a censored version of what the place we visit actually is. There is simply not enough time to experience what the place we've visited has to offer. My preference is to relax by a pool for a week. After living abroad for many years, I've come to a conclusion that travel is just not worth it. Travel to me seems to be about lying to yourself about how deep and life changing your trip was. It wasn't.
And it's good that you make the unfomfortable kind of videos sometimes, even though people are going to dislike them for popping that comfy bubble they live in.
Absolutely don't agree. Depends on the expectations ou put on your travel and your ability to express gratitude. Travel can be simple and unexpensive and full of human encounters. How about travelling to work for a good cause. We already know the pictures are part of the business travel and that's normal
Talking to a person atleast two decades older or two decades younger is also a form of exploration travel. The essence of travelling can be unleashed when we communicate with that person.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." -Mark Twain
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The problem is thinking of travel as synonymous of pleasure. It is not. Travel is learning, going out the comfort zone, challenging your self and respect the places you are visiting. Going on vacation and traveling it is not the same in my opinion.
I like your latest Instagram post caption that goes along with your argument: "Don't tell me how many countries you have visited, tell me what you learned from them."
trip1666 nothing, I am pretty far away 😂😂😂
Wise words, my friend.
Exactly what I was thinking while watching this video. Backpacking the world isn't the same as being on an all you can eat & drink cruise ship.
anuma Alan por el mundo 😱
These days you’re made to feel as if traveling is the only thing that gives life value and if you don’t travel, or even worse don’t want to travel people think there is something wrong with you.
Amen
😂 insane
Relatable.
So true! People snob at the idea that you can be at peace and internally validated in your own country or region.
Overly praise or disdain places they have only visited for a day or week.
And passport stamps are won as symbols of status. I am not against travel but it shouldn’t be a measure of success.
i recently saw a picture of a dude in front of the great pyramid of gizeh, saying:
"i am depressed, they said, take a trip, see the world, it will make you happy. here's a picture of me being depressed in egypt."
Hubert Shitmeyer relatable
not the same for everyone, I travelled and moved 1000 km away from home and my entire life changed for the better. I would have probably gone insane living in that fucked up place by now, now I am happy and excited about every thing that comes along my way. back then I hated everything
@@xxxmmm3812 this has to do with reason you were depressed.
Some might be depressed due to financial reason, other due to family/relationship issues, some do not like themselves, some do not like world, some do not know why they are depressed. Depending on type and severity travelling can be solution
@@fancyfox9148 Hält dich das davon ab, nach Ägypten zu gehen?
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I thought that I was crazy for not wanting to travel. I had people scold me for spending my money on "things" like books and custom made bookshelves instead of "experiences". Reading a book is an experience. Nature walks with my dogs are experiences. Going out to eat here is an experience.
Spending hours crammed into a plane or train alone makes me shudder. I don't like crowded places (and let's be real: the common travel locations are crowded as fuck). I also just don't see any appeal in working myself to death all year to take that one expensive two week trip. I want to have lovely moments and enjoy my life all the time, not just once a year for two weeks.
I love learning about the world. I just find it so much more comfortable to do it through books and documentaries.
How i agree so much with u 😭!
@@dhruvshukla2389 Introverts unite! It's okay to not want or like to travel. It doesn't make you ignorant or a worse person than anyone else. We don't all have to like the same things.
@@mchobbit2951 Its moreover questionable why the average Joe should be visiting a random village in thailand. Poor villagers. Poor villagers they go through so much work and also now feed tourists making them gifts, they would feed their kids with to a stranger who could probaply buy them a complete new house.
I am becoming much more like this. My desire to travel has almost completely died and now I'm more focused on finding a retirement place where I can be a part of the community and just live a peaceful life enjoying nature, my friends and family and pets.
@@sml0266 That sounds lovely. It's okay to change. You presumably had your wild traveling days and grew tired of it as retirement is drawing near.
I'm exploring my hometown and surrounding area as a tourist would this summer. It's interesting what you discover that way. Restaurants, museums and hiking paths you just always walked past or somehow never knew about.
I realized this year that I dislike traveling and gave myself permission to never do it again. This makes me feel calm and happy. Great video!
No fomo?
@@zurechtweiser no homo
@@KostasGrand no fomo
@@bewater6684 are you sure?
@@KostasGrand fomo= fear of missing out.
I never cared for traveling very much. I've got what I need here. Not only do I feel alone in this, but some people don't believe me when I say I'm not into traveling. They pitty me for not seeing places. Apparently "learning" through traveling doesn't cure shallowness.
Same
Same here.
Travel maniacs will imply that i'm an ignorant Hill Billy.
Same here, I find my every day life interesting enough, and travel is just a huge pain in the butt, it’s easy to feel your wrong for not wanting to travel but just remember there is a multi billion dollar industry conspiring to make you feel that way. People who love traveling are just like junkies seeking that next rise in brain chemicals and it’s like most things in life the more you get the more you want.
Yeah I'm the same. If I have time off work I like to keep it local. I simply like staying home and not waking up to an alarm clock. Going out for a hike or even just a trip to the neighborhood 7/11 for a snack. It's small stuff but it's the stuff I don't get to do in my day to day life and I enjoy that way more than travelling.
Agreed. Im good staying in my home-country because ive got everything i need here, Only people with no real hobbies think traveling is the only way to be happy
"No matter where you go, there you are" - Yogi Berra. Travel without expectations and you'll be fine.
The other problem with traveling is this feeling when your return home and need to get back to your everyday life, what a sad feeling really...
So create a life you don’t want to escape from
I realized I'm not the traveling type when returning home literally became the happiest moment of the every trip...
Ate at the famous restaurants, went to beautiful places, took pictures like Instagrammers, talking to strangers, yet I still miss my home the most, that emptiness was so real when I was wandering alone on the street. My friends always take pride of the places they went to and feel pity for me for not going, honestly I love listening to your adventurous story but I'm contented with my routine, eat well, spend time with my family, take a walk at the neighborhood and sleep well.
This is soo relatable ❤
Been there, done that!
Emphasis on the sleep well
I enjoy travel but what pisses me off are people who went to the same destination and judges you for your own trip plan/decisions. They think they are better because they stayed and did more during a week when all I wanted is a nice 2-3 days in a city.
Everyone has their own plans and its not always same except if we travel together. Everyone has their own travel budgets, schedule, and ideas of what makes them happy. Those elitists are annoying, and maybe deep down unhappy since it seems they are in a contest to get more selfies or points on a map. IDK lol.
Most people wouldn't travel if they weren't allowed to bring their phones. This is how it usually goes:
1. You excitingly plan for months
2. At arrival, you instantly post the location filter so people know
3. You take videos on the way to the hotel, then scroll on your phone to see what everyone else is dong
4. Go out for dinner, drinks, club. Posting all throughout
5. Trips over then you go back to your miserable life, hoping to plan other trip to feel a hit of dopamine again
Yes but it's a sad escapism, but better than nothing for these people I assume
You are exactly right. And you could just go to places locally for free to get that hit of dopamine. We are programmed by big business to think we need to travel to be happy, all while making others rich and us poor
Majority of the people who do this are trying to make money on followers or have mental issues. In other words they need reassurance. In any case, other than using their phone as a camera or video to capture genuine moments, it's best to stay off social media when you're traveling
“You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
DrProgrammer I read that book. Jake said that right?
Wherever you go, there you are.
"You discover yourself when going on an adventure" -Ashlei Leilani Johnson
Exactly but it's not a problem in the long run. In the modern world travel is the only time we have to take a moment and find out who we really are, and what we really want. The dream of numbing out in paradise for a few weeks is boring and a waste in comparison to getting closer to yourself and all the possibilities that brings to ones life.
Jesse Claire or you could just meditate.
I highly disagree on this. When travellling, every mundane task seems like a triumph - ordering a coffee in a foreign language, finding your way to a specific sight using only your common sense and a map or vice versa getting hopelessly lost turns into an adventure. And it's amazingly therapeutic, both if you have someone to share the experience with, or if you're on your own and can thank yourself for accomplishing something rather minor.
Maya L I completely agree with you
funny, in my experience what you'd call a "triumph" I call an exhausting menial task. I can roam the streets of belgium in Google street view thank you very much, and when I get tired of that I can have my own favourite coffee in my own comfortable home.
Only thinking about that gives me anxiety. Ok, even after you have done all these, you go home to your boring repeating routine with less money and more depresseing thoughts. But hey, you ordered a coffee in french woah
Now this is me XD. Just being able to function normally in foreign land is such an accomplishment haha
I think these are not good reasons to travel
The problem with travel is the cost
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Travelling can be much cheaper than living the mundane life. If you sleep in hostels for 10 dollars a day like i did for years. Living in the city has ruined me
... and the least of the problem is " the back of the head of the tax driver" ...
Well depends on how you live. If you bought an expensive car/house, eat out a lot, you could buy something cheaper, live a simpler lifestyle and travel more.
The cost and the fact it’s just momentary, you get home it’s over and all that is left are sone hazy memories and pictures no one else is interested in.
I get the point. Sometimes you'll travel to a place on your vacation that might seem so awesome that you think that if you could live there, you'd be happy for the rest of your life. But that's only because you haven't been there long enough to get sick of it.
Also, so many of us travelling / flying to countries where we meet the locals who can't afford to do what we do is killing the planet.
Amen 🙏🏻, imagine if all 7billion people got to travel like westerners the planet would be trashed within one year.
While I understand you guys were going for a video to try and lower expectations a bit of people who wish to travel, it's also important to point out the good things of travelling. They say 'travel broadens the mind' and it's true. Traveling helps you experience a different culture and opens your mind up to a different way of living and thinking. It's one thing to see a foreign city or country in pictures and movies, it's better to experience it in person. You get to see it all, the ugliness as well as the beauty. Everyone should experience 'culture shock' at least once in their lives to make yourself more humble and appreciate what you have back home.
Jen Y the video was called "The Problem With Travel", not "The Pros And Cons Of Travel"
polives and thats the problem
As romantic as that sounds, sometimes traveling has the opposite effect. Some people decide midway that they would rather be at home. Sometimes people find the local cuisine disgusting and make a beeline for McDonalds. Whether or not these experiences "opens up their minds" is up to them, but it would probably just end up being an anecdote to tell their friends back home.
Palkys wow that's the most sour comment I've read in a long time. People who can afford to travel are likely shallower than those who cannot? ... Just WOW
I completely agree with Palkys’ comments. Travel can open up your mind, but that requires willingness and proper planning that actually lets you experience something new. There are increasingly many ways to gain equivalent experiences at home though.
Sometimes travel can feel dreamy. That is until a certain destination's mysticism starts wearing off. But then again at that point, you learned about a new place.
TheExplorer Why do you keep saying the same thing in all these comments? Why are you so against travelling and paying poor people?
TheExplorer well, if you hate it so much don't do it. But for the same reason you don't want other people telling you to travel, don't tell others that they shouldn't travel just because you happened to have crappy travelling experiences
Yep I planned on a year backpacking in Asia got through eight months and was really homesick and it started to seem mundane I would arrive somewhere and be like yep temple check funky hostel with place to wash underwear check central business district check tourist market check local bars check little tiny stools to sit on and eat noodles check, speaking to locals in local language and have them pat my head and I am amazing check. However this is my experience individual results may vary now I prefer short breaks and a bit more luxury
judging by the comments, the outcomes of traveling depends on you as individual.
@TheExplorer I’m sure you’re fun at parties.
This stems from how superficial people are in their daily perceptions, so the problem is in that rather than in travel itself.
That's why meditation is the best form of travel, and it's cheap.
Don't run away...stay still...breathe...and you'll feel some measure of escape.
The irony is they travel to places where people are stone-still meditators and have never left their village. I wouldn’t be so blunt if travellers didn’t “start it”.
After your meditation, your problems are still there.
@@zurechtweiser Meditation doesn’t clear problems, it just gives us the calmness to go through them 🙂
True.
So you're saying I should just drop LSD instead?
You cant travel too all places LSD can take. But it will be healthy.
This is more real than many would like to admit I believe
The conclusion is something I have experienced myself after decades of travelling and for whose truth I can vouch for: in daydreaming of a location we have experienced the best this location has to offer us. Such a wise thing to articulate. That is why I have stopped travelling. I also love Pessoa’s thoughts on the subject: “In Madrid, Berlin, Persia, China, and at the North or South Pole, where would I be but in myself, and in my particular type of sensations? If I imagine, I see. What more do I do when I travel? Only extreme poverty of the imagination justifies having to travel to feel.”
I think this video is trying to point out that traveling is not the best thing in life, as media (specially social media) tries to tell us every day. It's easy to make others frustrated when they can't go somewhere (because of money, responsibilities, etc.) and being reminded how "life-changing", "essential" and "awesome" it is doesn't help.
This doesn't mean that traveling is bad or boring, just that maybe it's not what's missing from our lives, and if we go somewhere hoping to "find ourselves" it may let us down.
I have traveled to both Italy and Greece on separate occasions for weeks at a time. I'm from the US. Traveling to those places was unlike anything I've ever experienced at home. Nothing can compare to the experience of tasting cornerstore pizza in Rome, or having a frappe in Athens. These things aren't snapshot moments, but they're also experiences that would be hard to get in the US. Traveling is a collection of experiences--it's not only a mental snapshot of a particular scene at the beach. It's the beach, the drive there, and the drive "home".
Of course if you have inherent issues already before traveling, traveling will not magically fix them. But traveling can also give you a new experience at a culture that you haven't ever thought of.
Travelling is amazing. But more often, if you aren't happy where you are now, you also, very likely, won't be happy somewhere else. It's, typically, about mindsets. Happiness comes from within ❤️
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Exactly
people lost the meaning of traveling / vacation. The purpose is to learn to get ideas to make your place better with the ideas you obtained. Even the original meaning of leisure time meant to use your free time to learn which so many forgot or did not know.
Trench yes!!
However sometimes the new definition of leisure time fits the spiritual view of living in the moment and simply enjoying the mundane, far more, so it can go both ways clearly.
"There's no geographical solution to an emotional problem."
Andy Brice the truth! 👏🏼👏🏼
"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore".
"There's no place like home"
-Dorothy
Henry David Thoreau touched on this problem in Walden; "I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways."
For Walden, the world of his small home town in Massachusetts was detailed and fascinating enough by dint of simply existing, and he felt that true happiness and understanding was found, not by gallivanting all over the world, but by studying the marvels of creation as they manifest themselves right in front of you. For him, the greatest journeys lay inside the individual, and any external traveling was, at best, a tool for self-analysis, and at worst, a shallow distraction from the inner work that needed to be done.
Nicely put
Personally, it's not the insta-worthy views that make me love travel; it's all of the little incidental discoveries about the worlds of other people. There are few greater joys than that of walking around a foreign supermarket and marvelling at the weird and wonderful packages.
"Bad news sells better than Good news." Most things have a good and bad side; important to note that.
This video isn't supposed to make you hate travelling, but I think it's trying to articulate the weird sense of disappointment some of us feel when we travel, and the reason why travelling may not be for everyone. If you love to travel and you experience good things while travelling, *that is still valid*. It's just that for those of us who don't experience all those good things, who feel nervous about travelling, or disillusioned or out of place or whatever..those feelings are valid as well.
Well put. Travel is not for everyone. I love it. Almost always. But what's amazing for me can be frustrating, scary or boring for someone else. Definitely don't travel just to follow a crowd, or create a fake insta life.
This video proves that if you look you could find problems everywhere
The problem is not traveling itself.
The problem is when we see travel as a salvation of our inner problems.
Now I have something that I can shove on people's faces when they ask me in utter disbelief, "How can you not like travelling?"
Seriously, that's so annoying. 😑
I think what the video discusses is mostly subconscious.
I noticed that a lot of the comments argue that they travel to learn rather than for vacation, which is different. However, it's still subconscious idea that being at a place in a picture (mental postcard) will be more special in person. Anyone can learn as much if not more from just reading a book. Learning can cost just a few dollars in paperback versus thousands in flight and accommodation expenses.
This is something I ALWAYS felt and nobody else ever seemed to feel this way. I always felt travel was more hassle than fun. Because I carried my anxiety, my insecurities, my compulsions along. I am at a better place now. A place where I can enjoy travel for what it is. I don't think this video aims to discourage travel. Just that, it has become over rated off late. And also, we do, many a times, end up torturing ourselves by travelling.
I am just curious. what do you mean by "end up torturing youself by travelling"?
How come?
@@thepastelthread5963 i am sorry about how vague my comment was. 2 years later - i am in a place where i actually enjoy travel. But at times i still go that place, the place where i believe i'm torturing myself by travelling. what i meant by torture was : When you travel - you are far from your daily comforts (your bed, the lighting you like, your home, the familiarity, the security); you are hugely out of your comfort zone (new language, culture, rules etc.) Sure, you might stay in a luxurious hotel and actually have more comforts than your own home - but at the end of the day travel = wasting time and money; a luxury many don't have. By glamorizing travel, it adds unnecessary pressure on people who cant afford these. I look at travel more as an adventure.
Now, everyone has a different definition of torture. This is mine. I definitely dont discourage travel. But excessive travel - yes, over glamorizing travel - yes.
I guess I am on the only one in the comments that agrees with the video. Unpopular as this opinion might be, it is true that we hype up the places we go on holiday in our heads. How many times have we said "the view/food/people/hotel etc etc was not what I expected"? This is not to say that the holiday was bad overall--it's just that expectations never usually match reality.
And don't give me the whole tourist vs traveller crap. Travel is a personal thing, we all have our styles and preferences. There is no one right way to travel.
namehere Exactly why I don't have expectations anymore. It only sets you up to be let down because the trip wasn't what you envisioned in your head. Expect the worst, and be pleasantly surprised when it doesn't come to fruition.
Just don't go on holidays. Go on adventures.
try stoicism ;) its the problem which lies in expectations at all! had a huge fight with you family to christmas? guess what, you had to high expectation from anyone else!
I usually just found a change of scenery refreshing and those expectations are easily met.
namehere I think most people didn't really get the message SchoolofLife meant to deliver...
I hate traveling, I am the only one? I have no desire to travel anymore outside my country. Just wasting money on one week vacation... I designed my life when everyday is vacation...
Im with you man. Traveling is fucking overrated like people only wanna go to new countries only to impress others by taking some pointless seflies and shit even when you know traveling puts you’re life on the line it aint worth it. More people should be happy with everything they have in they’re home-country cause traveling doesnt really make you’re happy on the fact that you live you’re life temporarily which ironically is worse cause you know you feeling happy being at new countries doesnt last long
I mean if you can't see beauty where you are it seems pointless to think that another country will change that... Innerpeace and beauty can be found anywhere.
These moments of bliss - sunset, the roar of a waterfall, the first surf at your feet, a smile from a gorgeous person - are part of what makes travel so attractive.
But, there is so much more.
Positive moments, like meeting new people. With time, patience, effort and respect, we can even form friendships and learn from one another.
But also more difficult moments which test us and make us challenge our assumptions; they can help us learn and grow. That feeling of loneliness, disorientation or even despair that so often happens during travel is as valuable as that golden beach moment.
I have been robbed by armed children high on glue, a moment that terrified and shocked me but also taught me about safety while travelling. And it made me see more of the inequality and callous abuse of power by those older, or more powerful than us, who often also feel they have no other choice or have become numb to it all. Here I mean not just the old man leading this kids, but the police, the elites in that country dodging their responsibilities and the wealthy tourists, like me. I am not rich, but I am much wealthier than these kids and probably their master too. And as a money-carrying tourist the police will choose my side over over these children anytime.
I have been stuck on the wrong side of the highway when hitchhiking in Germany and Norway, tired and not getting a car. These were tough, difficult moments, especially mentally. They were not fun.
But I got through them and I learned things about my inner resilience. I got through that moment and through the night that followed and I will do so again if need be.
I experienced the weird reality of having a confusing mixed status as an obviously white man who obviously did not have much money. I was in Tanzania, shabbily dressed, with my Tanzanian girlfriend, who was poor, next to me. In Tanzania both wealth and whiteness are accorded status and their opposites are accorded very much lower ranks. Usually, my whiteness would win out and i would be accorded high status. But sometimes my poor looks won and things became really interesting :-)
I have come to value these tough, difficult moments. They are usually not fun, but i have learned much from them, about myself and about the world.
That, to me, is more valuable than that coconut-on-the-golden-beach-with-blue-sky moment.
But I still long for such moments on the beach 😊
Yes I know what this guy is talking about! When I went to Mexico and the Dominican I remember carrying a lot of mental baggage in the form of regret. I did enjoy my trips but I felt I couldn't enjoy it fully because of the events that happened in my life. You must find happiness within first and then go travelling. Nothing in the outside world will give you true happiness. You only achieve a higher vibration if you look within and begin to like yourself! Crazy good video!!!
The older I get, the less I want to travel. I can simply watch a documentary from the comfort of my own home. I can travel anywhere thanks to Google, and the internet.
It not the same thing as travelling in real life.
Yea less hassle
My thoughts exactly! You reap all the rewards of travelling without its pains!
Travelling is not really about seeing things but rather than experiencing things. It is about having an open mind and go with the flow, connect with people you would never have met otherwise using the universal language of smile!
I did a round the world trip for a year and it is one of the best experiences I had so far. Yes, I slept in crappy hotels, met crazy taxi drivers, saw poverty, got terribly sick but guess what? It Was A Part Of The experience itself, a part that changes your perspective on the world.
With that say met numerous tourists just doing exactly what they use to do at home with the same kind of people. I guess this video is made for them :-)
"don't need the funny moment repeated over and over again"
Yeah tell that to the garbage FUNNY GIFS 2017 COMPILATION/TRY NOT TO LAUGH videos all over TH-cam
BRILLIANT!! Thank you for beautifully articulating why I don't travel. I might also say that relationships are exactly the same. Reality never lives up to my expectations, hence why expectations are the cause of all misery.
Absolutely
Well this is depressing
Tradutora Brazuca then why did you type "XD" like it was funny?
The reality of our dreams and fantasies are always depressing but without the experience of being where or how you want you won't learn to love or like or even miss the reality of anything. Like i want to go to NY yes dirty busy weird new york but that's what i'm going for all of it not only the picturesque parts.
Will McEwan Hm, maybe just on a fist glance. But rather this is liberating. You will understand it I believe.
Will McEwan I'm almost blind. He's a bit wrong and a bit right.... but it's easier than it sounds. Just remember you have to live in your skin. Easier for me.
It's not depressing at all. You get to go places with yourself. Hardly 'your' experience if you weren't there to experience it. Travel provides a great opportunity for self reflection, observation and future planing. It gives the time to learn about oneself and develop oneself, also to see the patterns that make us unhappy overseas and at home so we may unwind them to be happier when we return.
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not"
source pls
Diego Gonzalez Ralph Waldo Emerson I think
Khalil Gibran ;)
I find the opposite. I'm a different person when I travel. A better person. More open-minded, optimistic, prone to moments of wonder and insight. I come back different too. As Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
This video should be called "The problem with travelling to escape your sad, pathetic life". Many others travel not as a reprieve from their lives, but for a plethora of positive reasons. Friends abroad. Food adventure. Learning about new culture. Seeing that people across the world aren't exactly different than us, and inspiring ourselves to come home enlightened about ourselves. You can't just tell people traveling is bad when it actually improves our ability to live without prejuduce. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Could be a good thing for our times.
Travel creates justified prejudice and confirms bias.
Food adventure 😂
Travel is about learning and having fun, not always pleasurable but worth it than accumulating too many stuff at home.
the more I think about it, the more I realize that up until very recently travel was a scary and treacherous task. I bet people hardly ever traveled anywhere for "vacation" I'm guessing it was only out of necessity. what do you think?
Jackal Unleashed Also, leisure time as we have today didn't exist - people just worked, ate, slept. Earlier on, travel was exploration and, as you said, dangerous. Now travel is performance: carefully edited pictures and footage for public consumption 😊
I think I like turtles
apparently the 'I like turtles' kid had a youtube channel for awhile
I think you're both pretty and smart.
Protector of the Republic is that releavent?
Spot on. I remember Russel Brand made the same observation years ago, about the problem that you're still yourself when you're away on holiday.
I don't think they're trying to discourage you, rather to make you think more realistically about what a holiday entails.
I agree. went through the same think during my travels. people are always like "I wanna go to Hawaii my life would be so much better" but you know what. there are people who are depressed in Hawaii. people who work and live there. its just another place with nicer weather. if you feel like you need to get out of your city and be somewhere else there*s something to deal with at home that you're supressing. you will eventually have to deal with it once you get home or you'll never be happy. don't get me wrong - I love traveling and think its healthy, but don't do it because you're trying to run away from something.
This is so unbelievably pessimistic. As a globe-trotter myself, I wholeheartedly disagree with the notion that all a place has to offer is its image. The mere atmosphere of somewhere new is exciting, let alone any quantifiable sensations!
the nature of us humans is that we are fickle, restless, bored...i have recently questioned this about myself. the sooner we realise this and that we are helpless to such feelings (even with change), the sooner we can be free from being irritated by them and live intentionally the way we want.
So that's why I never fully enjoyed travelling while I was dragged along with family when I was younger.
Seems like there's really no running away from oneself, no matter where to.
This is not to discourage travel, but do so more wisely.
Um, no. Yes, a lot of people have a warped view of travel because all they see is other people's Instagram posts where they are smiling on a beautiful beach while sipping Pina Coladas, and we are completely unaware of the fact that just 15 minutes later the sunny weather turned to a thunderstorm and their day went to shit, but that is not a problem with travel; it's a problem with expectations from travel. Every year for the past 12 years I've gone on at least one long 3-4 week vacation to a wonderfully exotic destination, and every few months I'll make an effort to go on a shorter vacation somewhere closer to home (Generally continental Europe). Both I and the people I took along with me loved every single one of those travels, but I also realised why so many said that their own holidays were never as good as the ones that I brought them along on.
People expect to look at a few pictures, book a hotel, a flight, and have the time of their lives. Going on a good holiday couldn't be further from that. Going on a holiday means reading around 12-15 travel books of 400-1000 pages each (I would recommend a combination of Lonely Planet with National Geographic Explorer), reading hundreds of reviews, making a list of around 30 things/ day you'd want to do, cutting those 30 things to the 7 or 8 which you think are the most worthwhile, fitting them all together so that no time is wasted, creating a route, reading more reviews because now you've gotta choose hotels, deciding if you're gonna use public transport or rent a car, deciding if you think you're gonna need to book a tour for anything you want to visit, looking for places to eat that fit your budget, tastes and allotted time and then maybe leaving around 2-3 hours spare each day so that you can spend a bit more time if you come across a particularly great thing that you want to spend more time with.
Most people's travels suck not because they bring themselves along, but because they book 10 days in Rome when the only thing they know about Rome is the fact that Colosseum and Roman Forum are there. Then they show up, view those things within a day or two, eat in some tourist trap, and then go on some random and undoubtedly boring tour organised by some shitty agency for the next few days. Of course they will then go back to worrying about their job and the problems of daily life; how could they not? They've got nothing to do. It's sad to see you clearly identify the end problem of what makes the travels of so many bad, while failing to notice that the underlying problem is not that fact that you're along for the ride, rather the fact that you likely failed to put in the hundreds of hours of effort to plan out a great holiday.
A good holiday is a 10 day escape that keeps you engaged, entertained, in awe or filled to the brim with expectation for most of the time. It takes about 3-6 months of daily work to plan out a 1-week vacation or about 12 to 18 months to plan out a 2-3 week one. If you do it right, you won't have time to worry about your problems or to notice the ugly garbage on the floor because you'll be moving from car to museum to monument to restaurant to car to hike to the hotel with no wasted time. It's not a dream that post cards fool us into believing, it is something that anyone can enjoy and something that you will not regret spending money on. It just takes a lot of effort to do. It is in many ways analogous to writing the scrip for a play; behind the 2 hours of perfect direction and storytelling are hundreads of hours of scrapped ideas. The same is true for travelling.
Sadly, by not confronting people about that good travelling takes effort, and instead telling them that what is ruining their travels is something inherent to travelling, so many of the people watching this will never get to enjoy the wonderful experience of leaving all your problems behind for 3 weeks and just taking in the culture, beauty, landscape and food of a foreign place.
And this is why I like road trips. To specifically go traveling to be with myself. To embrace who I am while going somewhere I've never been before.
If you travel only to get royal treatment, you will relate to this. But if you want to see the world through your own eyes and have nourishing and not-so-instagram-like experiences, traveling is one of the best things you can do.
true it depends on the individual's character
I've tried it and it wasn't for me. of the 6 or so international trips I've been on, I've never felt satisfied by them. how can you learn a culture in a couple weeks? how can you connect with people you can't talk to? I'd rather see it all on VR from the comfort of my home.
How can you learn a culture in a couple of weeks? You cannot. But you can certainly immerse yourself in it. Step 1 is buying food where the locals do and only where the locals do. Step 2 is bedding down where the locals do, not in zoned hotel spaces, but in homestays. And so on and so forth. Basically, you have to note that you are walking in the direction of a tourist destination and quickly do an about-face and walk the other way.
Oh, and meet the locals. Talk to them. Listen to their stories. The locals are your 'tourist attraction', not museums.
@@JenniLevenbookI've lived in two different countries. 2 weeks is not enough to fully immerse yourself in their culture. It takes about at least a year to have deep understanding. You'll only have a shallow understanding in short of period of time. Travelling is mostly for privileged people that people from poor countries could ever dream of. So no being in 20 different countries just means you're rich and it's somewhat classiest to those who live in poorer countries.
I've never felt the need to travel, I've spent my entire life in nyc rarely leaving and feel complete
The meaning of life properly understood :) i also like that other video
I think the video is speaking to certain people that we have all seen: participating in cookie cutter trips, getting on and off tourist buses to snap photos, always opting for their home country cuisine (or fast food)...etc
We all know in theory travelling is supposed to revitalize us and broaden our horizon. But in reality when people get home from a trip, a lot of times the only thing they bring with them is exhaustion and some superficial knowledge of another culture.
I wish the video provided ways to address the problem more than just to "daydream from the comfort of your home" though. I dislike the video.
It was done right to not do that. It is supposed to make people think not be spoonfed.
Travel is good if you do it to expand your horizons -- not if it's used to run from your problems.
I think the point of this video should be that people shouldn't expect to gain happiness and fulfillment through travel, even though they may experience both of these emotions. Travel can be wonderful but by living for travel (or anything for that matter), we fail to be present in our lives and miss out on so much.
I've seen that people who travel too much are actually really unhappy, dissatisfied and superficial (not all of course).
I don't think the video is being negative, it's just saying to be realistic about travel. Travel is not really "vacation"; it involves the reality of logistics, physical demand, and emotional expectation. It doesn't necessarily make you smarter or enriched. I've been to four countries in the last year and even moved to Japan, and I find the video's general message to be true, but not pessimistic. We feel accomplished in going through the act of travel, but we really end up looking for the same things to survive to see something for a short time. Good feelings and memories of a place comes more from the people you're with or who you meet, not the 'place' in of itself. I like travel as much as anybody, but this is the reality.
Expat cure for homesickness is simply view a few videos of hometown.
Here's my take on travel. I think traveling is done more to benefit and satisfy one self, more so than care for the places visited, like for selfish reasons you might say. Pictures of places you visited are like trophies to show off. We travel to feel special and receive attention. When you're a traveler and guest, you are treated nicely, but if you were to live next to or with those same people everyday, it would be different. Also, the many popular and great places you want to see, are ruined by hordes of tourists just like you wanting to see them. Happy travels!
You should travel for yourself, not for a photo on facebook so that everybody at work can see that you livin good
I think he is just implying that some people (not all) travel as a means to get away from themselves, but fail thinking that traveling will complete them self. Im sure this applies to some not all. Some people on social media post up all of the glamorous pictures of their travels leaving the story of them getting to their destination behind. I probably have a biased opinion because it hits close to home for me and also makes me think about someone awesome that I used to know...
so true! I was lucky to have married well and traveled extensively in my 20s, 30s. Having been to almost every place I desired, now in my mid 40s, I have almost zero desire to travel abroad again. The hassles, physical stress and anxiety outweigh the fleeting, fuzzy memories. But that’s just me. 😎
Thats why I never "bring myself" so by doing that I can have the most geniune experience to fully be there. Rarely take pictures too. I think that everytime you are trying to record that moment. You are anywhere but there...
thanks for your last sentence. I'll try to apply it no my next travel. it makes sense
I think you misunderstood. "bringing yourself" also includes things like your physical state, such as "oh man the view from this mountain is great but I actually should have eaten more at lunch because I'm now very hungry and its quite distracting me from appreciating this view" or "I've broken my glasses and will have to locate a person in this rural region who can repair them or give me new ones, this will take a lot of time I hadn't planned" or "I thought this boat ride through the islands would be really scenic, however I didn't realize it would make me quite so seasick" or "I'm in a foreign country and I have spent half my vacation time in bed with food poisoning" or "I really brought the wrong shoes for this walk, my feet are hurting but the tour isn't over".
Yes, always leave yourself at home
How do you not bring yourself?
@@zurechtweiser I focus on the whole experience, from the time I leave my house I'm an entirely new person and all I want to do is to perceive the environment and the culture that I'm around, and whatever it is that may happen even if it is not pleasant. Only when I arrive back home that I take a couple of days off to remember what I did, I don't even try to plan too much because once you do that you are enclosuring yourself within a specific boundary, we are beings that live and learn and react with the world based on experience. To bring yourself is like using a colorful glasses to watch a picture, you are not perceiving it as it is but through the lenses of that person that came with you on the trip. Be on the moment. It will change you and the way you experience everything around.
What would a school of life video be without half the comments being people who missed the point
I travel for education, adventure, and local foods and music. I've been doing it a few times a year for about two decades now. Never interested in merely relaxing at a beach all day. Those "hardships" mentioned in this video are expected, and quite frankly, all part of the adventure. To smack my life out of the routine I'm used to at home. Like anything in life - your mindset determines what you'll get out of it. This video seems to be from someone with a negative depressing mindset on things. Or, perhaps, someone desperate for "unique" youtube content?
I like traveling to try local foods as well :)
I haven't been to many places yet since I'm only 18 but I get pretty excited when trying new foods (That's why being in an Airplane never bothered me since they tend to have food I've never had before :P)
The video does seem really pessimistic about traveling :/
I completely agree... anyone who has done any sort of international traveling outside of just sitting at a beach resort already knows that traveling is not all glamorous and much of it can be monotonous and even irritating. The reason people travel is to break the day to day cycle and try to learn more about themselves and the places and people they visit.
@Not Right Music.
Then you forget that not everyone is you.
A lot of people who travels have a very idealistic view of traveling and often take the easiest way out and staying in the best location of the place which usually means sheltered from all the problems the country have.
The activities they engaged are predominately just shopping. Something which they can do in their own country.
This video is a good video for people who do not think like you and not yet realize what they think about traveling is, are nothing but a fabrication of their own idealistic view.
The video talks about the mindset of those people Not of those who think like you who doesn't need this video to realize that travelling is a education process.
I think it was clear enough. It is the expectation that "traveling" in the proposed sense (see a picture that looks amazing and buy into it) will be a fix to many things (whatever they may be: emotions, feelings, character, fun, etc). Like seeing somebody snowboarding and you jump into it, sure it looks awesome and refreshing, but the reality is, the first time ever it will be painful, full of dangerous falls, one or two concussions, maybe even a blackout, sweating, fear and pain at -15C... for me it became the best thing ever, sure, but not for most. Especially when there is a very well oiled machine putting very well crafted pictures for us to consume (as opposed to long infinite video playback of a succession single things like most of the travel will be), social media people showing ONLY the VERY positive few key moments, etc.
It also helps maybe understand on a trend I have seen lately, quite a few friends (mostly women closing on their 30s), are down to travel like it was crack. And if not traveling, they are planning the next travel. They say if they could be traveling 8months of the year they would do it... the way it's conveyed, makes me question what is it they are escaping from? 8months? why not move to this random place better then and travel back to your city sometimes?
This puts a different light, it's not what do we try to escape from, it's more "what are we chasing".
Traveling for education, adventure, foods and music is a more complete and honest approach in my opinion. Especially if it is clear that sometimes it could be a botched adventure with more hardships than leisure.
Travel is the single most overrated "luxury", supercharged by social media insecurities.
Kudos again to the School of life. It's one of my favorites and I keep recommending the channel to friends .Wonderfully articulated. Loved it! There were a couple of my opinions which I couldn't exactly find concrete words to express. This video solves that. Also, in today's world with the internet on our fingertips and so many shows and magazines, would you rather watch or read 20 hrs of exhilarating premium content or travel and sleep for 13 and visit actual attractios for 7 hours.. Where also you would end up looking at those waves for much more than a few minutes by the same spot you are on the beach... Think about it..
this is what I have been pondering about. I can no longer travel if I am not going to live in that city for a year. it feels very inefficient to bring a small bag and cram every single place into a one week trip hoping that it will change my life. reality is the beauty of a place only helps me in healing when I can savour the beauty of the place. I am excited to take next steps to fulfilling this goal. thank you for the insight ✨✨
I come back to this video once every year!
I recommend you watch the movie The secret life of Walter Mitty
i like that movie too, but it is a movie. and walter is travelling for work!
I had the same condition as Walter for 20 years and that’s why I can’t understand the travelling hype lol, it’s definitely taught me far more about appreciating the moment through your mind than I’m sure a lot of travellers will understand. I don’t even want to compare, but as travelling people always do that, I might as well lay it out there. The true adventurer finds passion in everything and does not put life into expectations and boxes, like a child brought to life.
Travel can be hard. Over the years I developed some kind of odd whimsy with travel. It took me years and to find something incredible even in the mundane has to be trained. Pick a snack you don’t get very often. Download movies or shows that you don’t usually see. Find something new to explore. It is those moments that I find the most rewarding. And hold no expectations. When flying or driving, be calm and flexible. I’ve had to take different routes. If you miss one thing, another will pop-up surprise you. Having a little bit of whimsy and no expectations has brought a true enjoyment to travel.
I'm not sure I agree fully with this. I want to travel somewhere to get a change of scenery and to explore and see what is going on. I want to see different fauna and animal life than the same old, meet different people. As someone who comes from a very small town in an already small country. Going on an adventure is something I dream about and frankly if it weren't for money I would have done so already. Then again my trip would last a year at least and I'm not sure it's quite the same as a week travel.
Of course I'm just speaking for myself, but I find this holds true of my relationships with the people I love too. When I think about a relative or friend I haven't seen in a long while, I often find myself recalling a fleeting happy moment or even a photograph of them I particularly like. And then when I am finally reunited with them, I can usually only stand about 2 or 3 days of togetherness before I long for my quieter routine.
What is wrong with me? I've never desired travelling. Just thinking about it makes me exhausted already.
I don't feel this way at all! Seeing in person is way better. Breathe in the air, relax, leave who you are at home. Anxieties may still linger but I feel at peace in a place where no one knows my name.
I am literally travelling tomorrow, now all the excitement is gone. What do I do now?
Don't travel like the narrator implies in this video. Don't go somewhere to "get away". Go to wander, like your name implies. Go to immerse yourself in another culture in another place. I don't see this video as saying one shouldn't travel, just that one shouldn't travel to get away from something else, because you will most likely be dragging that something else with you anyway. Often though, seeing things from a different perspective, in this case your usual surroundings or the people in your life, can help you to tackle your problems or at the very least allow you to make peace with others. Most importantly though, don't try to record every moment of your trip with a camera, LIVE it! Traveling can be wonderful!
Just enjoy yourself dude! You'll love it! I travel to foreign countries about 4 times a year and it's what gets me 'high'.
Wanderer Allow yourself to be excited and enjoy new experiences! It's totally worth it, I assure you. Don't let others' miserableness make your joy vanish!
The main takeaway of this video is not "don't travel" but rather, recognize that like anything else that is new, that feeling eventually wears off. However, just because the feeling wears off, that doesn't mean you can't take a minute to really take in where you are and experience it for what it is. You've endured hours of sitting in a overly cramped plane, and you are now in a different place entirely! This is something to experience and enjoy because until a century ago, it wasn't considered possible to transport large amounts of people to a different location. Don't let this video dissuade you from not travelling. Just recognize why you are making this decision.
Ignore the video. Yes, you will see good and bad stuff on your trip. That's how life is, but usually the good things you'll see will outweigh the bad. At least that's how I see it. I actually like I'm high on life when travel and I feel so humbled by the experience. I think it's the greatest thing there is.
Traveling experience is so weird and mix of feeling for me. I do like seeing new places and seeing everything new. But it can be so tiring and hectic cause of the journey. I also lose stuff like glasses or hat because you carry a lot of stuff u even forget ur own stuff. It is a short term pleasure so it doesnt make us happy for long time.
The sad fact of seeing the beaches with trash all over it, or sad little hotel room, is part of journey. This video is only for those that have romanticized the perfect vacation only to be disappointed when reality sets in. I once paid $100 for a meal that I was looking forward to, only to be disappointed. Do i get down about it? no. My curiosity of a certain dish wouldn't have been sated even if you had simply told me, it's not as great as you think. It's only when I try it, that I truly experience life. Least we all just live vicariously through youtube videos and never actually live a little.
Most travel that people do, especially the travel that young people do, isn't travel. It's hedonism. Drinking and partying, going to a resort and being totally pampered, That's not really "travelling" If I want to experience pleasure and just be pampered, I don't have to travel very far for that...
I learned a new word today, hedonism. That's an interesting point of view
Anybody who lets their experiences in faraway lands be ruined so easily is too shallow to travel.
I'm glad you brought this up. There's a reason our word 'travel' comes from the Middle French 'travail'. Yeah, it's great. Get strip-searched coming and going twice. Find yourself delayed or stranded by some natural catastrophe or instance of social upheaval. Or clapped into the local gaol over some perceived violation. Nearly everywhere you go anymore, what you experience are the local peculiarities for the implementation of Agenda 21/2030. I live in one of the renowned tourism hotspot destinations, and what I see all the time is a bunch of people knocking themselves out TRYING to have a good time....
the only thing we need is food water and a fucking bed. #vanlife
I experience all of these factors every time I travel. Yet I save my money and travel every 6 months. I am addicted to travel. The worse part of traveling is post trip depression and guilt. I have spend over $45,000 in 7 years on traveling. I even did some illegal things to sort my traveling addiction. Do I recommend traveling no. It is like getting one tattoo, then you can not stop tattooing yourself causing waste of your beautiful skin and thousands of dollars. I just want to die on one of my trips and my soul will be rest in peace.
For me, what's wrong with travel is that we get a censored version of what the place we visit actually is. There is simply not enough time to experience what the place we've visited has to offer. My preference is to relax by a pool for a week. After living abroad for many years, I've come to a conclusion that travel is just not worth it. Travel to me seems to be about lying to yourself about how deep and life changing your trip was. It wasn't.
And it's good that you make the unfomfortable kind of videos sometimes, even though people are going to dislike them for popping that comfy bubble they live in.
*Sorry guys, world travel is probably the most important thing anyone can do. It ALSO happens to be the most fun I've ever had..*
"We ruin our trips by a fateful habit of taking ourselves along on them." Tragicomical
Absolutely don't agree. Depends on the expectations ou put on your travel and your ability to express gratitude. Travel can be simple and unexpensive and full of human encounters. How about travelling to work for a good cause. We already know the pictures are part of the business travel and that's normal
Talking to a person atleast two decades older or two decades younger is also a form of exploration travel. The essence of travelling can be unleashed when we communicate with that person.
There are two types of travelers: A tourist & an explorer.
Both traveling but with different mindsets.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." -Mark Twain