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March 29 - April 5, 2020
Even the notoriously overworked Japanese have a more flexible holiday schedule than American workers.
the point of travel isn’t merely to see new places, but to see your old place in a new way.
They were fundamentally ordinary people making the best of the time they were given.
True nomads travel for the sake of their livelihood, for subsistence and food. I wanted to travel to experience the world.
Seven hundred years ago, it took a genius to imagine that travel was something you could do for no reason at all. You can just go see something because it exists. That’s what appealed to me.
I hoped that doing something crazy would make me the most interesting man in the room. Instead, I learned that no one becomes interesting in a day.
Or even over the course of, say, 10 years.¯\_(ツ)_/¯
being interesting would be harder than making a single dramatic decision.
Uh, no shit my guy...
“I wish I could do that. It must be nice to not have any responsibility,” they’d say sarcastically.
We don’t study languages in school,
Lol what school?
we avoid overseas programs in college.
Wat
presocial media days of 2005
I mean, technically fb launched in 2004...
Planning, while rewarding, can also be hard work—figuring out what you value, in a disciplined way, always is.
If you want serendipity to happen, you cannot expect it come, and you cannot make it occur, but you must always be ready for it.
travel doesn’t let you escape your past. Your demons will always find some space in the bottom of your backpack.
We see a snapshot of life and create a complete history from that one image.
a handful of days in a city doesn’t tell you much about the people or the place.
“travel is only glamorous in retrospect.”
One doesn’t need to travel all the time to live a life of adventure.
it’s hard to say a place is terrible based on just one visit. Likewise, there’s no reason to resist going back because “what if it’s not as good the second time around?”
someone else is traveling with you: time.
A garden would be an act of commitment.
There is no old you. There is just the you that you are right now. You are always a work in progress.
what Emerson meant when he referred to travelers who travel away from themselves, “he carries ruins to ruins.”
a place is only as boring as you are.
