It usually kicks in sometime during their twenties.
Resist. Don’t do it.
Trust me.
Don’t travel—especially to a foreign country.
It will ruin your life.
Because travel has a way of messing with you and you’re too impressionable in your twenties. Wait until your thirties or forties or fifties or later because most people are set in their ways by then.
But in your twenties? No way. You’re just asking for misery and heartache.
Have you ever twirled around in circles and then suddenly started twirling the other direction — it makes you feel sick and dizzy, right? That’s exactly how your entire world will feel once you travel.
But I fear that many of you are too stubborn to heed my warnings.
This is a mistake. Trust me. I’ve done it and I suffer every day.
So what’s the big deal you ask? Travel is supposed to expand your horizons, right? It’s supposed to make you think differently. For eons wiser men than myself have made proclamations about how it changes the way one sees the world.
YES! That’s exactly what it does — and that’s the problem because young people are too susceptible to the effects of travel. Luckily, by the time you’ve exited your twenties you’ve likely acquired a career, loans, family, debt and numerous other obligations — all these things act as a suit of armor that protects you from travel’s nasty side effects.
So what is the big deal?
First of all, the person who you were before you traveled no longer exists. It’s scary. You won’t realize it at first but it slowly starts creeping up on you as you travel. You start to see how other cultures live. Their views on work and leisure and quality of life and food and public transportation and art and architecture and tradition — it all starts to permeate into your brain and it takes over.
You’ll start asking yourself questions:
“Do I want to work 60+ hour weeks and have barely any vacation time?”
“Is there more to life than work?”
“How come young people in other countries aren’t crippled with student loan debt?”
“What is most important in my life?”
“Why didn’t I study a foreign language?”
“Maybe other countries do some things much better than we do them back home.”
“How have people in other countries figured out how to enjoy life?”
It doesn’t truly hit you until you’re back home because that’s when you discover “home” — the place that has always represented stability and comfort — doesn’t exist anymore either. Suddenly home feels different. It’s disorientating and it feels like you’re wearing someone else’s glasses. It will make you feel queazy.
Speaking of home, it’s weird going from living out of a backpack to having a house full of stuff you’ve amassed. You realize having a house/apartment full of stuff doesn’t make you happy — in fact, all your stuff starts to feel a little overwhelming.
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