The problem is thinking of travel as synonymous of pleasure. It is not. Travel is learning, going out the comfort zone, challenging your self and respect the places you are visiting. Going on vacation and traveling it is not the same in my opinion.

i recently saw a picture of a dude in front of the great pyramid of gizeh, saying: "i am depressed, they said, take a trip, see the world, it will make you happy. here's a picture of me being depressed in egypt."

“You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.” ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

These days you’re made to feel as if traveling is the only thing that gives life value and if you don’t travel, or even worse don’t want to travel people think there is something wrong with you.

I realized this year that I dislike traveling and gave myself permission to never do it again. This makes me feel calm and happy. Great video!

I thought that I was crazy for not wanting to travel. I had people scold me for spending my money on "things" like books and custom made bookshelves instead of "experiences". Reading a book is an experience. Nature walks with my dogs are experiences. Going out to eat here is an experience. Spending hours crammed into a plane or train alone makes me shudder. I don't like crowded places (and let's be real: the common travel locations are crowded as fuck). I also just don't see any appeal in working myself to death all year to take that one expensive two week trip. I want to have lovely moments and enjoy my life all the time, not just once a year for two weeks. I love learning about the world. I just find it so much more comfortable to do it through books and documentaries.

many travel only to take photos and post them on facebook , so everyone can be impressed. i bet if taking camera of any kind to travel was prohibited, 95 precent of people were travel much less

I never cared for traveling very much. I've got what I need here. Not only do I feel alone in this, but some people don't believe me when I say I'm not into traveling. They pitty me for not seeing places. Apparently "learning" through traveling doesn't cure shallowness.

The only problem I've discovered with being a traveller is that it makes me overlook the place I live. When I lived in London I never went to do one of the 1,000 things available to me until I showed an American around and realised wow... I live in one of the best places in the world and never knew it!

"No matter where you go, there you are" - Yogi Berra. Travel without expectations and you'll be fine.

Ate at the famous restaurants, went to beautiful places, took pictures like Instagrammers, talking to strangers, yet I still miss my home the most, that emptiness was so real when I was wandering alone on the street. My friends always take pride of the places they went to and feel pity for me for not going, honestly I love listening to your adventurous story but I'm contented with my routine, eat well, spend time with my family, take a walk at the neighborhood and sleep well.

The other problem with traveling is this feeling when your return home and need to get back to your everyday life, what a sad feeling really...

Most people wouldn't travel if they weren't allowed to bring their phones. This is how it usually goes: 1. You excitingly plan for months 2. At arrival, you instantly post the location filter so people know 3. You take videos on the way to the hotel, then scroll on your phone to see what everyone else is dong 4. Go out for dinner, drinks, club. Posting all throughout 5. Trips over then you go back to your miserable life, hoping to plan other trip to feel a hit of dopamine again

whenever i travel, i am always underwhelmed. Landmarks are smaller than imagined, food is less unique and the cost is outstanding

I really liked the analogy between an experience of beauty and a joke. I agree that an image or setting of beauty can be absorbed quickly and then can become redundant rather soon after. However, in terms of the value of traveling, although we cannot leave all of our baggage at home, I believe that leaving the familiarity of our usual settings and venturing off into new areas and experiences can help distract us and reduce our baggage for a little while. Even if only for a little, I still want any beauty that can make me feel more alive.

I see a lot of confusion in the comments and I think what's most important to note is This video is mainly for those who simply think travelling is the ultimate goal in life and their main reason to travel is to see all the Pinteresty photos (such as of the Eiffel tower, london eye, etc.) in person, which many many do... Because after you see all such in reality, you are left still feeling empty and your problems are still there with you.. So the moral of the video seemed to be somewhat like Travel is great but you can't escape from your problems >.

You could go to the nicest place on earth and a miserable person would still be miserable and you could go to the biggest shit hole on earth and a person happy with themselves would still be happy.

Also, so many of us travelling / flying to countries where we meet the locals who can't afford to do what we do is killing the planet.

Last couple of times I've traveled I felt deeply miserable with myself and i didn't understand why, all was pleasant and exciting, and yet i carried many bad emotions with me. This video gave me some insight as to what the hell was wrong with me. I just feel shitty very often and going to some new location does not change that.

The problem with travel is the cost

This is a sad depressed version of travel. What pictures can't bring us is the triumphant joy and emotion of our own accomplishments in ascending a high mountain or other physical feats. Those achievements would also diminish all the negative baggage you bring along with you. Modify the mindset of a tourist with one that pushes your own boundaries - either physically or intellectually challenging yourselves in climbing higher, hiking further, learning another language to connect with people with different cultural backgrounds, eat their food etc... All that would eliminate all the negative boo hoo' s as described in this video. Also, photos can't capture depth and dimensions for crap.

The conclusion is something I have experienced myself after decades of travelling and for whose truth I can vouch for: in daydreaming of a location we have experienced the best this location has to offer us. Such a wise thing to articulate. That is why I have stopped travelling. I also love Pessoa’s thoughts on the subject: “In Madrid, Berlin, Persia, China, and at the North or South Pole, where would I be but in myself, and in my particular type of sensations? If I imagine, I see. What more do I do when I travel? Only extreme poverty of the imagination justifies having to travel to feel.”

Sometimes travel can feel dreamy. That is until a certain destination's mysticism starts wearing off. But then again at that point, you learned about a new place.

I get the point. Sometimes you'll travel to a place on your vacation that might seem so awesome that you think that if you could live there, you'd be happy for the rest of your life. But that's only because you haven't been there long enough to get sick of it.

While I understand you guys were going for a video to try and lower expectations a bit of people who wish to travel, it's also important to point out the good things of travelling. They say 'travel broadens the mind' and it's true. Traveling helps you experience a different culture and opens your mind up to a different way of living and thinking. It's one thing to see a foreign city or country in pictures and movies, it's better to experience it in person. You get to see it all, the ugliness as well as the beauty. Everyone should experience 'culture shock' at least once in their lives to make yourself more humble and appreciate what you have back home.

Travelling is amazing. But more often, if you aren't happy where you are now, you also, very likely, won't be happy somewhere else. It's, typically, about mindsets. Happiness comes from within ❤️

You'll never have this problem if you're too beoke to travel

This is more real than many would like to admit I believe

I am currently travelling and this video was posted at as a MASSIVE COINCIDENCE as I was contemplating similar ideas. But what I realised was that for me, travelling isn't about always having a great time. It is a time to grow, learn, try new things, get out of your comfort zone, and connect with people and the world around you.. Being in a new place forces your mind to look at everything for the first time- including yourself. I have come to so many realisations about how I think, act and live back home by being away from home. I know that when I go back home I will have come to understand the good things about my life and how I live, and also they parts that I can improve. I have a massive appreciation for everything I have now, and travelling has changed me for the better

That's why meditation is the best form of travel, and it's cheap. Don't run away...stay still...breathe...and you'll feel some measure of escape.

I highly disagree on this. When travellling, every mundane task seems like a triumph - ordering a coffee in a foreign language, finding your way to a specific sight using only your common sense and a map or vice versa getting hopelessly lost turns into an adventure. And it's amazingly therapeutic, both if you have someone to share the experience with, or if you're on your own and can thank yourself for accomplishing something rather minor.

I agree with this video, based on recent experiences. I cried at Buckingham palace on a short trip to London with my mother, and was inexplicably cranky. At an orchestra festival in Prague my friends and I still complained. Travel isn't a perfect experience, but neither is life. I'm grateful for my experiences, and I think it is still nice to be somewhere new at times.

Holiday stress is real. Holiday joy is an illusion. Do not fall for it. Stay home.

I think this video is trying to point out that traveling is not the best thing in life, as media (specially social media) tries to tell us every day. It's easy to make others frustrated when they can't go somewhere (because of money, responsibilities, etc.) and being reminded how "life-changing", "essential" and "awesome" it is doesn't help. This doesn't mean that traveling is bad or boring, just that maybe it's not what's missing from our lives, and if we go somewhere hoping to "find ourselves" it may let us down.

This stems from how superficial people are in their daily perceptions, so the problem is in that rather than in travel itself.

Sometimes I feel like the only one who is completely fulfilled living where I am. It seems like people yearn to travel for the same reason that people shop - to get a temporary buzz, to fill a whole in themselves "if only I was in Hawaii" is the same as "if only I had the latest shoes"

I agree. You can't escape yourself. I may not live in the prettiest place but when I'm in a bad mood, I see dirt and old houses. When I'm in a good mood, I see the nature, young couples and children. Travel can be great if you want to see all the sides of the place you are visiting. Otherwise I don't care for the pretty pictures of luxurious hotels on social media. And I don't understand why some people see travelling as some sort of greatest achievement in life. I received weird questions from some travelers like, 'Why don't you find a better paid job so you can travel?' Why not, it's a very nice idea to work like a horse at a job you don't like so that you can spend a week or two in a nice place, make some photos to prove you were there and then go back to the job you hate.

I have traveled to both Italy and Greece on separate occasions for weeks at a time. I'm from the US. Traveling to those places was unlike anything I've ever experienced at home. Nothing can compare to the experience of tasting cornerstore pizza in Rome, or having a frappe in Athens. These things aren't snapshot moments, but they're also experiences that would be hard to get in the US. Traveling is a collection of experiences--it's not only a mental snapshot of a particular scene at the beach. It's the beach, the drive there, and the drive "home". Of course if you have inherent issues already before traveling, traveling will not magically fix them. But traveling can also give you a new experience at a culture that you haven't ever thought of.

people lost the meaning of traveling / vacation. The purpose is to learn to get ideas to make your place better with the ideas you obtained. Even the original meaning of leisure time meant to use your free time to learn which so many forgot or did not know.

So you're saying I should just drop LSD instead?

I don't understand all this highly emotional indignation of travellers here. I travel a lot and I love it, but I find the video interesting. Travelling is not only fun and beaches and woaw what a revolutionary way to self-development. It has its downsides too, just as nearly anything in this world. Nowadays there's this big pressure to travel, its trendy and cool. But not everyone needs to travel and not everyone should do it. There are people who are disrespectful towards the problems of the places they visit and they seriously better stay home. Besides, it doesn't have to be a priority for everyone, some people just prefer doing other things.They don't have to be constantly pressed to feel like they're not cool enough, because they haven't been to twenty countries yet. And there's plenty of this "quit your job and travel" crap around the Internet. And just as the video points out, the places we go to are not a paradise. I recently travelled around South-East Asia and came across plentiful backpackers repeating what a paradise it was. Well, it's not a paradise for everyone, some people suffer because of the poverty, human rights issues etc., just as in many other places around the globe. Just because they could surf and go to the beach doesn't mean the place itself was with no flaws. So if someone asks me how my trip was, I'm not only speaking about all the awesome things I saw, I prefer to mention both the good and the bad. I think it's important to remain realistic and skeptical, even when it comes to travelling. Travelling can be beautiful, but it can also be stupid, depending on the traveller's (or tourist's, name it as you wish) attitude and behaviour. It's healthy and beneficial to talk not only about the pink and pretty side of travelling, but about its downsides too and the problems that are related to it (and there are many, tourism as a global phenomenon creates probably as many issues as benefits).

Henry David Thoreau touched on this problem in Walden; "I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways." For Walden, the world of his small home town in Massachusetts was detailed and fascinating enough by dint of simply existing, and he felt that true happiness and understanding was found, not by gallivanting all over the world, but by studying the marvels of creation as they manifest themselves right in front of you. For him, the greatest journeys lay inside the individual, and any external traveling was, at best, a tool for self-analysis, and at worst, a shallow distraction from the inner work that needed to be done.

Brilliant! I do not enjoy travel. I always viewed it as simple, childish escapism in pure form - little better than a video game. There is a world of difference between mindless (i.e. tourist) travel and travel with a purpose - to meet friends or family or pursue a career opportunity. Bravo for having the courage to defy the powerful travel industry!

Travel to a place to get to know different cultures, meet diverse people from different countries listen to there travel stories get inspired by there stories and try to do the same. Don't focus your travels on taking pictures to post on social media to impress people back home fundamentally all you are doing is lying to yourself, disconnect from the digital world for a while and connect with the real world and yourself

"Bad news sells better than Good news." Most things have a good and bad side; important to note that.

"There's no geographical solution to an emotional problem."

"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore". "There's no place like home" -Dorothy

Personally, it's not the insta-worthy views that make me love travel; it's all of the little incidental discoveries about the worlds of other people. There are few greater joys than that of walking around a foreign supermarket and marvelling at the weird and wonderful packages.

I traveled the world when I was younger just to learn about new cultures and broaden my horizon. I value those memories. Nowadays I leave the city once a year and head into the desert, just for solitude. But in a nutshell, it's good to be the best "travel companion" you can be on your journey, the rest is just geography. No matter where you go, you always take yourself with you.

BRILLIANT!! Thank you for beautifully articulating why I don't travel. I might also say that relationships are exactly the same. Reality never lives up to my expectations, hence why expectations are the cause of all misery.

Spot on. I remember Russel Brand made the same observation years ago, about the problem that you're still yourself when you're away on holiday.

This is something I ALWAYS felt and nobody else ever seemed to feel this way. I always felt travel was more hassle than fun. Because I carried my anxiety, my insecurities, my compulsions along. I am at a better place now. A place where I can enjoy travel for what it is. I don't think this video aims to discourage travel. Just that, it has become over rated off late. And also, we do, many a times, end up torturing ourselves by travelling.

The problem is not traveling itself. The problem is when we see travel as a salvation of our inner problems.

Yes I know what this guy is talking about! When I went to Mexico and the Dominican I remember carrying a lot of mental baggage in the form of regret. I did enjoy my trips but I felt I couldn't enjoy it fully because of the events that happened in my life. You must find happiness within first and then go travelling. Nothing in the outside world will give you true happiness. You only achieve a higher vibration if you look within and begin to like yourself! Crazy good video!!!

Theres a saying that goes " To bring out the best of ourselves sometimes we have to bring the best out from others". When you travel to foreign places, try to make friendships with the local people. Talk to the lonely wanderer, a shop owner, the waiter, the cook, the lobby receptionist in a hotel, etc. Spark a conversation, something brief and full of clever conversational topics. Along the way there will be someone who will reciprocate back with the same enthusiasm to establish a lasting friendship. Thats the true key of having a meaningful adventure. Thats what I always do with my guests.

I think what the video discusses is mostly subconscious. I noticed that a lot of the comments argue that they travel to learn rather than for vacation, which is different. However, it's still subconscious idea that being at a place in a picture (mental postcard) will be more special in person. Anyone can learn as much if not more from just reading a book. Learning can cost just a few dollars in paperback versus thousands in flight and accommodation expenses.

This video isn't supposed to make you hate travelling, but I think it's trying to articulate the weird sense of disappointment some of us feel when we travel, and the reason why travelling may not be for everyone. If you love to travel and you experience good things while travelling, *that is still valid*. It's just that for those of us who don't experience all those good things, who feel nervous about travelling, or disillusioned or out of place or whatever..those feelings are valid as well.

this is what I have been pondering about. I can no longer travel if I am not going to live in that city for a year. it feels very inefficient to bring a small bag and cram every single place into a one week trip hoping that it will change my life. reality is the beauty of a place only helps me in healing when I can savour the beauty of the place. I am excited to take next steps to fulfilling this goal. thank you for the insight ✨✨

Travelling is not really about seeing things but rather than experiencing things. It is about having an open mind and go with the flow, connect with people you would never have met otherwise using the universal language of smile! I did a round the world trip for a year and it is one of the best experiences I had so far. Yes, I slept in crappy hotels, met crazy taxi drivers, saw poverty, got terribly sick but guess what? It Was A Part Of The experience itself, a part that changes your perspective on the world. With that say met numerous tourists just doing exactly what they use to do at home with the same kind of people. I guess this video is made for them :-)

I mean if you can't see beauty where you are it seems pointless to think that another country will change that... Innerpeace and beauty can be found anywhere.

This video proves that if you look you could find problems everywhere

I would say I’m a “casual fan” of traveling. When the mood strikes, I’m all for hopping on a plane and going to a new part of the world I haven’t been to yet. But honestly, traveling is just another form of escapism and consumerism. It doesn’t make you better than everyone else.

These moments of bliss - sunset, the roar of a waterfall, the first surf at your feet, a smile from a gorgeous person - are part of what makes travel so attractive. But, there is so much more. Positive moments, like meeting new people. With time, patience, effort and respect, we can even form friendships and learn from one another. But also more difficult moments which test us and make us challenge our assumptions; they can help us learn and grow. That feeling of loneliness, disorientation or even despair that so often happens during travel is as valuable as that golden beach moment. I have been robbed by armed children high on glue, a moment that terrified and shocked me but also taught me about safety while travelling. And it made me see more of the inequality and callous abuse of power by those older, or more powerful than us, who often also feel they have no other choice or have become numb to it all. Here I mean not just the old man leading this kids, but the police, the elites in that country dodging their responsibilities and the wealthy tourists, like me. I am not rich, but I am much wealthier than these kids and probably their master too. And as a money-carrying tourist the police will choose my side over over these children anytime. I have been stuck on the wrong side of the highway when hitchhiking in Germany and Norway, tired and not getting a car. These were tough, difficult moments, especially mentally. They were not fun. But I got through them and I learned things about my inner resilience. I got through that moment and through the night that followed and I will do so again if need be. I experienced the weird reality of having a confusing mixed status as an obviously white man who obviously did not have much money. I was in Tanzania, shabbily dressed, with my Tanzanian girlfriend, who was poor, next to me. In Tanzania both wealth and whiteness are accorded status and their opposites are accorded very much lower ranks. Usually, my whiteness would win out and i would be accorded high status. But sometimes my poor looks won and things became really interesting :-) I have come to value these tough, difficult moments. They are usually not fun, but i have learned much from them, about myself and about the world. That, to me, is more valuable than that coconut-on-the-golden-beach-with-blue-sky moment. But I still long for such moments on the beach 😊

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not"

If you tried to discourage me from traveling you failed. I am wanting to explore the world for more reasons than just some photographs. I want to do it to learn other ways of living, broaden my horizons, understand other points of view etc.

At one point in time this was me to a T. I thought traveling would cure all my problems without realizing that it was never the external factors that would fix me, the answer really does lay within yourself. Amazing work again School of Life.

My childhood memories of traveling and vacations are just as meaningful or fulfilling as memories of me and my friends playing in my garage. It's the memory of a joyful feeling or moment of felt laughter that I remember most and I can have those moments inside my room or in some island in Hawaii. Where ever I go, I take myself there.

It’s so true! No one wants to hear about your vacation travels and you yourself only remember some fleeting instances. I can think of a handful people I’ve known in all the decades of my life who were actually interesting to know. And all of them had one thing in common (money, yes, but I mean in terms of their actions) and that’s that they spent considerable amounts of time LIVING in those places, jot just visiting them. Maybe they lived ten years in Japan. Maybe they travel back and forth between Kansas and Egypt. Maybe they have a lot of family in El Salvador. As far as brief vacations go, yes those were great times, and a good time spent with a companion or exploring can be worthwhile but only if you tackle it mindfully and know that you can find that same value at home. If you can’t find it say home, you won’t likely find it abroad. There are plenty of of unenlightened jerks who travel a lot and still claim it makes them a “better person”. A curious spirit starts at home and doesn’t “need” travel to grow.

Well this is depressing

I rarely enjoy travel. The process makes me very stressed and overwhelmed. Everything is a struggle and when you've finally managed to feel like you've arrived and get to relax for a day, it's time to repack.

I just traveled and came back, and realised that travelling makes me really anxious. As a kid I liked it, now it’s just painful 😢 I’m glad to see many relatable comments here 😊

This video makes some good points, but I personally find the best thing about travel is overcoming the challenges. For me, travel is about developing skills to cope with difficult situations, meeting amazing people, enriching your life with unique memories and experiencing a life beyond your own. Sometimes you miss the bus, lose a wallet, get robbed, get homesick, get lost, catch the wrong train, or break a phone but hey got to love the challenge.

Kudos again to the School of life. It's one of my favorites and I keep recommending the channel to friends .Wonderfully articulated. Loved it! There were a couple of my opinions which I couldn't exactly find concrete words to express. This video solves that. Also, in today's world with the internet on our fingertips and so many shows and magazines, would you rather watch or read 20 hrs of exhilarating premium content or travel and sleep for 13 and visit actual attractios for 7 hours.. Where also you would end up looking at those waves for much more than a few minutes by the same spot you are on the beach... Think about it..

Now I have something that I can shove on people's faces when they ask me in utter disbelief, "How can you not like travelling?" Seriously, that's so annoying. 😑

Of course I'm just speaking for myself, but I find this holds true of my relationships with the people I love too. When I think about a relative or friend I haven't seen in a long while, I often find myself recalling a fleeting happy moment or even a photograph of them I particularly like. And then when I am finally reunited with them, I can usually only stand about 2 or 3 days of togetherness before I long for my quieter routine.

This video should be called "The problem with travelling to escape your sad, pathetic life". Many others travel not as a reprieve from their lives, but for a plethora of positive reasons. Friends abroad. Food adventure. Learning about new culture. Seeing that people across the world aren't exactly different than us, and inspiring ourselves to come home enlightened about ourselves. You can't just tell people traveling is bad when it actually improves our ability to live without prejuduce. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Could be a good thing for our times.

Thats why I never "bring myself" so by doing that I can have the most geniune experience to fully be there. Rarely take pictures too. I think that everytime you are trying to record that moment. You are anywhere but there...

I come back to this video once every year!

so true! I was lucky to have married well and traveled extensively in my 20s, 30s. Having been to almost every place I desired, now in my mid 40s, I have almost zero desire to travel abroad again. The hassles, physical stress and anxiety outweigh the fleeting, fuzzy memories. But that’s just me. 😎

I think the video is speaking to certain people that we have all seen: participating in cookie cutter trips, getting on and off tourist buses to snap photos, always opting for their home country cuisine (or fast food)...etc We all know in theory travelling is supposed to revitalize us and broaden our horizon. But in reality when people get home from a trip, a lot of times the only thing they bring with them is exhaustion and some superficial knowledge of another culture.

I think he is just implying that some people (not all) travel as a means to get away from themselves, but fail thinking that traveling will complete them self. Im sure this applies to some not all. Some people on social media post up all of the glamorous pictures of their travels leaving the story of them getting to their destination behind. I probably have a biased opinion because it hits close to home for me and also makes me think about someone awesome that I used to know...

So that's why I never fully enjoyed travelling while I was dragged along with family when I was younger. Seems like there's really no running away from oneself, no matter where to.

Travel is about learning and having fun, not always pleasurable but worth it than accumulating too many stuff at home.

the more I think about it, the more I realize that up until very recently travel was a scary and treacherous task. I bet people hardly ever traveled anywhere for "vacation" I'm guessing it was only out of necessity. what do you think?

The older I get, the less I want to travel. I can simply watch a documentary from the comfort of my own home. I can travel anywhere thanks to Google, and the internet.

the nature of us humans is that we are fickle, restless, bored...i have recently questioned this about myself. the sooner we realise this and that we are helpless to such feelings (even with change), the sooner we can be free from being irritated by them and live intentionally the way we want.

And this is why I like road trips. To specifically go traveling to be with myself. To embrace who I am while going somewhere I've never been before.

This is so unbelievably pessimistic. As a globe-trotter myself, I wholeheartedly disagree with the notion that all a place has to offer is its image. The mere atmosphere of somewhere new is exciting, let alone any quantifiable sensations!

I guess I am on the only one in the comments that agrees with the video. Unpopular as this opinion might be, it is true that we hype up the places we go on holiday in our heads. How many times have we said "the view/food/people/hotel etc etc was not what I expected"? This is not to say that the holiday was bad overall--it's just that expectations never usually match reality. And don't give me the whole tourist vs traveller crap. Travel is a personal thing, we all have our styles and preferences. There is no one right way to travel.

I travelled around the entire world, and while I don't regret anything, I learned that my home region, with my loved ones, is the most beautiful place in the world.

I've been thinking a lot about this problem recently and I'm glad to hear about it from someone else. I've travelled this summer alone for the first time and it was more complicated than I expected, but it was quite an experience.

I'm not sure I agree fully with this. I want to travel somewhere to get a change of scenery and to explore and see what is going on. I want to see different fauna and animal life than the same old, meet different people. As someone who comes from a very small town in an already small country. Going on an adventure is something I dream about and frankly if it weren't for money I would have done so already. Then again my trip would last a year at least and I'm not sure it's quite the same as a week travel.

If you travel only to get royal treatment, you will relate to this. But if you want to see the world through your own eyes and have nourishing and not-so-instagram-like experiences, traveling is one of the best things you can do.

this is so well said. the 'back of the airline seats' is such a drag it's very difficult to reach a logical conclusion that travel is worth the trouble.

Traveling experience is so weird and mix of feeling for me. I do like seeing new places and seeing everything new. But it can be so tiring and hectic cause of the journey. I also lose stuff like glasses or hat because you carry a lot of stuff u even forget ur own stuff. It is a short term pleasure so it doesnt make us happy for long time.

Thanks for a thought provoking video. I consider this quite often, but in the broader context of advertising. I think the same or similar phenomenon plays a role in making us buy something that looks great in the advert, but we completely neglect things like the necessity to maintain and store the item, and mainly, the fact that it's much more difficult to incorporate it into our normal lives.

I agree in many points. I love travelling, even one of my biggest dreams is to visit all the countries across the world, understanding that it's likely I never going to do it. I was backpacker around south America, and the true is that I spent most of my time inside a bus. I was just sitting there waiting hours and hours for the arrival. Sometimes i met bad people (the true is most of the people don't care about you as everywhere) but i met more good people, who they were a kind of message to believe again in the humanity. The pictures are often fake, the places sometimes are not as beautiful as you see in the picture, but sometimes occurs the opposite phenomenon, you are in places so beautiful that you don't understand why are not they more famous. I spent bad times, I was five times sick and lost more than 10 pounds, but I think it was the most beautiful experience that I ever lived. I met beautiful people, i learnt so much, i lived experiences that I am sure I never will live again, and I had many beautiful moments,, that kind of moments where you love the life. i think I am a better human than I used to be. Don´t travel because you are going to have the most popular picture in your facebook, travelling at least for me, it means more than a sample image.

Maybe I'm weird but I enjoy the whole travel experience, getting lost, Airports, running around is like an adventure to me

I find traveling--particularly to nature, as a way to escape the chaos of a busy mind the brews from the boisterous--or even "boring", homely routines. It's not necessarily an act of running away from responsibilities, it's more so time given to the self for reflection. Away from the environment where "life happens", from a city or a hometown, I think the mind has more clearance to find clarity in what makes me more anxious or at ease. From there, I begin to discover what doesn't work and what does work. I begin to feel like I understand what's going on. Answers are not always given, of course, so it's more so a meditation of question after question, then coming to terms to move on from point a to point b. It's not the easiest task to be in the moment, but surely there are nuances that deter the chance. I think it's a matter of being able to give the self some time for reflection, but also not dwelling to a dwindling while trying to remember the dogma of our experiences. Thanks for the insightful video, it's always a pleasure to come to these kinds of films. One of my favorites was the bit on "Being Warm". Looking forward for the lot to come. Let the universe smile upon you.

I find the opposite. I'm a different person when I travel. A better person. More open-minded, optimistic, prone to moments of wonder and insight. I come back different too. As Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."