I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in all its whimsy and pointlessness may depict the story of life - and indeed could be a useful model to keep in mind, seeing as so much of life's ambition comes unstuck or leads to nothing much at all.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life. Hiking does that for me.
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel.
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
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