To quote a famous person, " those who travel or depart only change their sky, not their condition". Is there then any purpose in travel if we carry around our prejudice ?
The
excitement and any benefit are cancelled out if the mind set is
unhealthy. If when you travel to a new country you only allow as your
companion your preconceived ideas about the country and its people.
Perhaps travelling should be left to the young with their hopefully slate clean mind in which every new experience is lodged untainted in the memory. The "old" have a whole set of preconditions to all they see, a lifetimes jaundiced predisposition based on innuendo so that the prism through which they evaluate anything is like trying to see the road through a dirty windscreen !!
The excitement and awe of a child, even a young adult is a thing of beauty. The receptive mind absorbing the thing for what it is, not for what it is supposed to represent. For this person travel is rewarding, it forms a basic understanding of the complexities around us highlighted when observed outside our home setting. Perhaps the greatest gift, more than a university education would be to cut a young person off, adrift in the world for a number of years to learn and gain some basic structure to what they may see and understand of the human condition, which theirs specifically is only one type.
Perhaps travelling should be left to the young with their hopefully slate clean mind in which every new experience is lodged untainted in the memory. The "old" have a whole set of preconditions to all they see, a lifetimes jaundiced predisposition based on innuendo so that the prism through which they evaluate anything is like trying to see the road through a dirty windscreen !!
The excitement and awe of a child, even a young adult is a thing of beauty. The receptive mind absorbing the thing for what it is, not for what it is supposed to represent. For this person travel is rewarding, it forms a basic understanding of the complexities around us highlighted when observed outside our home setting. Perhaps the greatest gift, more than a university education would be to cut a young person off, adrift in the world for a number of years to learn and gain some basic structure to what they may see and understand of the human condition, which theirs specifically is only one type.
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