I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class.
I am hard-core middle class.
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
I'm painfully middle class.
If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.
I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.
After boarding school in Switzerland, at, like, 14 or 15, my life clicked, and I just realized, 'I don't want to be like anyone around me at my school. I don't think the world revolves around money.'