It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.
Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.
Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.
Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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.
The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.
You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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