People should remember….
…remember to travel more. Actually it should be mandatory to travel either between college and university or after uni or whenever someone feels like it. When traveling around the world, people need to make decisions, use the common sense, intuition or whatever you want to call it. As all the time they need to use the supercomputer i.e brain as I called control room to make sure that they find place to sleep, something to eat, something to drink and sometimes also someone to sleep with. How could they otherwise do all those things if not learn to use the control room.
Control room should be developed in family and school and so far I believe that this is not the case. I think that traveling becomes new thing “to do” rather than as learning process. Not saying that everyone doing that but I met few travelers, who slip in to tick box category and I was one of them at the start. See that, be there, do this ….. but in my case as one middle-aged guy I’m just catching up on the dream of the youth. Even if this dream is fulfilled now, I still have some regrets about what I did in my life and how it does affect others, most closest ones. Traveling in younger age will teach us to be kind to others as well as caution, curious, open, warm, gentle and caring, just to mention few of the virtues of the traveler.
In case, we used all those virtues with common sense we will realize, that we are all the same, no matter the nationality or other words, what are used to separate us humans instead of uniting us.
People should remember, that we are all in charge ! We voting the governments to work for us and not otherwise. When traveling with open heart and open mind, as well as some language skills or at least good internet connection for google translate app, we learn to communicate. Being in present, interested in other people lives, makes our communication honest and social without prejudice. Well some are more interested to stay in fancy hotels to take selfies to show on instagram so that they can present life they want but don’t have to make their “friends” jealous. When we are truly ourselves and express ourselves truthfully we might get in touch with others on some deeper level.
Deeper level sounds so heavy and profound as if this is some new age weekend retreat manual 😊 Date diver as they go deeper as the advertisement slogan said on nameless dive shop t-shirts. Some of us divers go deeper even mentally.
I always like the French and I their country is amazing too, with great wine, cheese and nature in both forms. Most importantly I like them as they were the only nation who if was not happy with something that government did, they protest or stop in unison unless the government backed down. This is the way to show the few elected who is the real boss or who they are working for. So this can be case of going deeper to their values and hold their values as the most important in their lives. So here is the lesson, together in mass is better chance for a change something we don’t like.
When traveling, we learn to cooperate with strangers, sleeping in the rooms with strangers, sometimes sleeping with the strangers too. In case, if we do not like something, than we learn how to address it or express it and sometimes seek win-win solutions, not always but we are learning. Another thing what we learn is critical thinking and think over things, before make decision or go with intuition if the thinking is going nowhere. When traveling, we are making new friendships, opening our minds to different cultures, habits. We are becoming better people.
That is what people should remember, becoming better people by traveling, socializing, opening to new experiences and critically thinking about everything we experience. When all of the above is used, we could see the truth and seek the path of life, lived with understanding than no one is better than others and only when we are all working together, we can make change.
