TheLostGlobe

Thanks to Mike at Vagabondish for tagging me for this, I like this one more than the first one that went around,

1. The Real World. I want to know the real world, how people live in other countries, what their world view is like, their history, how much of the world is occupied by humans and how much or little damage have we done. Of course we can read about all these things but I don’t think you can really comprehend the figures until you see for yourself.

2. Exploring & Experiences. For the experience of exploring. Who cares if the mountain you just climbed isn’t the worlds highest or that the ancient temple you are walking through at sunrise is about to be stampeded by package tourists, if it’s new to me then that is all that matters, most of the world might have already been explored but to almost everyone in it, it is completely foreign so with the knowledge of other explorers we can explore for ourselves.

“While my being in a place at a particular time may not be recognised and recorded by all, such visits do go down in one version of history. They become part of my own personal history. Though these records may never be written they will be with me always and turned to time and time again.”

3. To live. Somehow working, picking up a mortgage and having 2.3 kids doesn’t seem like living to me, that’s not to say that having kids, having a home or working are bad, just that for me right now it’s not what I want from life. I like the idea of a nice house overlooking a river with a mountain backdrop but hiking to a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas is lets face it, a lot more memorable and romantic way of spending my time.

“We do these things not to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping us”

4. Enlightenment. I think if you travel with an open mind and learn from what you see, hear, do, etc it will lead to a better understanding of yourself, others and the world we live in and with a better understanding of those things you can find how you should best fit in and find happiness.

5. Necessity. I have to, if I didn’t travel I think my brain would implode from lack of stimulation, I need that something more that travel gives us. I’m sure I could find other things to look forward in life but there aren’t too many more things with as much substance as travel. It seems instinctive that I should travel if I couldn’t I would be like a lion who can’t hunt.

So there we have it,  I’m looking forward to seeing more from the community and some new people and unique reasons, hopefully my own fit that bill. I can’t think of anyone to tag at the moment so any who reads this consider yourself tagged and expect bad meme karma if you don’t comply.

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