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."
not the same for everyone, I travelled and moved 1000 km away from home and my entire life changed for the better. I would have probably gone insane living in that fucked up place by now, now I am happy and excited about every thing that comes along my way. back then I hated everything
@@xxxmmm3812 this has to do with reason you were depressed. Some might be depressed due to financial reason, other due to family/relationship issues, some do not like themselves, some do not like world, some do not know why they are depressed. Depending on type and severity travelling can be solution
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 like your latest Instagram post caption that goes along with your argument: "Don't tell me how many countries you have visited, tell me what you learned from them."
Exactly but it's not a problem in the long run. In the modern world travel is the only time we have to take a moment and find out who we really are, and what we really want. The dream of numbing out in paradise for a few weeks is boring and a waste in comparison to getting closer to yourself and all the possibilities that brings to ones life.
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.
So true! People snob at the idea that you can be at peace and internally validated in your own country or region. Overly praise or disdain places they have only visited for a day or week. And passport stamps are won as symbols of status. I am not against travel but it shouldn’t be a measure of success.
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
So true! But I, as an artist would probably bring my sketchbook. Drawing an environment from observation requires one to really notice everything around you. And certainly there would be no selfies in a travel sketchbook!
I traveled to Europe decades before Facebook and took over 300 photos with my little Instamatic camera! So glad I did so my granddaughters could see me in Italy, Paris , London and Madrid wearing my mini skirts and bell bottom jeans! Time capsule material!
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.
Same here, I find my every day life interesting enough, and travel is just a huge pain in the butt, it’s easy to feel your wrong for not wanting to travel but just remember there is a multi billion dollar industry conspiring to make you feel that way. People who love traveling are just like junkies seeking that next rise in brain chemicals and it’s like most things in life the more you get the more you want.
Yeah I'm the same. If I have time off work I like to keep it local. I simply like staying home and not waking up to an alarm clock. Going out for a hike or even just a trip to the neighborhood 7/11 for a snack. It's small stuff but it's the stuff I don't get to do in my day to day life and I enjoy that way more than travelling.
Agreed. Im good staying in my home-country because ive got everything i need here, Only people with no real hobbies think traveling is the only way to be happy
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.
@@dhruvshukla2389 Introverts unite! It's okay to not want or like to travel. It doesn't make you ignorant or a worse person than anyone else. We don't all have to like the same things.
@@mchobbit2951 Its moreover questionable why the average Joe should be visiting a random village in thailand. Poor villagers. Poor villagers they go through so much work and also now feed tourists making them gifts, they would feed their kids with to a stranger who could probaply buy them a complete new house.
I am becoming much more like this. My desire to travel has almost completely died and now I'm more focused on finding a retirement place where I can be a part of the community and just live a peaceful life enjoying nature, my friends and family and pets.
@@sml0266 That sounds lovely. It's okay to change. You presumably had your wild traveling days and grew tired of it as retirement is drawing near. I'm exploring my hometown and surrounding area as a tourist would this summer. It's interesting what you discover that way. Restaurants, museums and hiking paths you just always walked past or somehow never knew about.
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
You are exactly right. And you could just go to places locally for free to get that hit of dopamine. We are programmed by big business to think we need to travel to be happy, all while making others rich and us poor
Majority of the people who do this are trying to make money on followers or have mental issues. In other words they need reassurance. In any case, other than using their phone as a camera or video to capture genuine moments, it's best to stay off social media when you're traveling
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.
I enjoy travel but what pisses me off are people who went to the same destination and judges you for your own trip plan/decisions. They think they are better because they stayed and did more during a week when all I wanted is a nice 2-3 days in a city. Everyone has their own plans and its not always same except if we travel together. Everyone has their own travel budgets, schedule, and ideas of what makes them happy. Those elitists are annoying, and maybe deep down unhappy since it seems they are in a contest to get more selfies or points on a map. IDK lol.
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 >.
Channel for Positivity l Understanding l Justice Yep. All the pretentious posturing that missed the point. Like the video says, people carry a lot of baggage. Hopefully, they'll discover in time that luggage.
Photos can never replace the actual wonderful experiences like eating crepes on the Eiffel Tower, like I did when I was in beautiful Paris! Glad I took the photos I did so I could enjoy revisiting my wonderful trip which I never regretted taking for one second! Merci beaucoup~
i wanna travel because this planet is freaking awesome and I want to experience all of it, even the little travel ive done has left me in awe and my partner says he loves the glow in my eyes every time we get to see something new. it isn't the point of life but it is hella amazing
And another thing to consider is when you travel to another country your a foreigner, the people will usually treat you prity well but that’s because they see you as a cash machine!!
Had to travel a lot this year, at first I was excited, but few months later I realised how overrated travelling is. Must say that some very few destinations make it worth, for me it was Hanoi, Bangkok, Krakow, Bansko and Austrian/Italian alps if you live with locals, not as a tourist.
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.
I don't think anywhere is a "shit-hole". Did Trump really indoctrinate us with that line of thinking? I hope not. Anyhow, I've temporarily lived in 2 of my home countries of Venezuela and Palestine. You'd assume they were "shit-holes" bc of the problems they're facing, but they're incredibly beautiful countries in their own right. There are no beaches or foods quite like those in Venezuela, and Palestine's esoteric vibe, deliciously dense windy weather, and unique smells makes it feel like you entered a portal into another world. I've also visited Columbia, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Spain, China, etc. and all of them had beautiful & interesting places. As an American, I learned that the assumptions we make about a country because of its wealth, or government politics, or drug wars, only exist in small sections within a country that the news likes to highlight and hyperbolize. These countries are large and vast. There's going to be bad places, sure. But for the most part, there are engaging sites and hospitable people, who make this absolutist idea of a "shit-hole" country, non-existent. People who tend to believe that characterization about a country, have never visited that country and are likely to be ignorant about the nuances of the world. Such uncultured people would benefit from some travel and cultural exchange. To be fair, I'm sure you meant to say "a miserable person could go to the nicest place and a happy person could go to a misperceived "shitty" place, but wherever they go, there they are." If that's the case, yes I can agree. Except I am a miserable person with PTSD from years as a war civilian and poverty, and it's bc of those experiences, that miserable people like me can look for the silver lining in "ugly places" and will likely prefer hole-in-the-walls over tourist traps. I learned you'll find better experiences in the poorer local areas than you'd ever find in a luxurious city surrounded by annoying travelers.
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 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.
funny, in my experience what you'd call a "triumph" I call an exhausting menial task. I can roam the streets of belgium in Google street view thank you very much, and when I get tired of that I can have my own favourite coffee in my own comfortable home.
Only thinking about that gives me anxiety. Ok, even after you have done all these, you go home to your boring repeating routine with less money and more depresseing thoughts. But hey, you ordered a coffee in french woah
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.
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.
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.
TheExplorer well, if you hate it so much don't do it. But for the same reason you don't want other people telling you to travel, don't tell others that they shouldn't travel just because you happened to have crappy travelling experiences
Yep I planned on a year backpacking in Asia got through eight months and was really homesick and it started to seem mundane I would arrive somewhere and be like yep temple check funky hostel with place to wash underwear check central business district check tourist market check local bars check little tiny stools to sit on and eat noodles check, speaking to locals in local language and have them pat my head and I am amazing check. However this is my experience individual results may vary now I prefer short breaks and a bit more luxury
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.
As romantic as that sounds, sometimes traveling has the opposite effect. Some people decide midway that they would rather be at home. Sometimes people find the local cuisine disgusting and make a beeline for McDonalds. Whether or not these experiences "opens up their minds" is up to them, but it would probably just end up being an anecdote to tell their friends back home.
Palkys wow that's the most sour comment I've read in a long time. People who can afford to travel are likely shallower than those who cannot? ... Just WOW
I completely agree with Palkys’ comments. Travel can open up your mind, but that requires willingness and proper planning that actually lets you experience something new. There are increasingly many ways to gain equivalent experiences at home though.
Travelling can be much cheaper than living the mundane life. If you sleep in hostels for 10 dollars a day like i did for years. Living in the city has ruined me
Well depends on how you live. If you bought an expensive car/house, eat out a lot, you could buy something cheaper, live a simpler lifestyle and travel more.
The cost and the fact it’s just momentary, you get home it’s over and all that is left are sone hazy memories and pictures no one else is interested in.
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.
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).
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
The irony is they travel to places where people are stone-still meditators and have never left their village. I wouldn’t be so blunt if travellers didn’t “start it”.
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 ❤️
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.”
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.
They didn't discourage anybody from traveling. It's pointless to do so. They just warned that it may not solve some unrelated problems if there are any.
TheExplorer why are you so against this? What if you don't want to see the people, but the spectacles? The beauty of the Earth? Such pessimism is not good.
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.
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.
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.
You've got a point there. I hate it when people act like you're some kind of boring loser just because if you haven't been to every country in the world.
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.
However sometimes the new definition of leisure time fits the spiritual view of living in the moment and simply enjoying the mundane, far more, so it can go both ways clearly.
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
can you truly learn a culture in a few weeks? can you really understand the lives of a people in the time of your "vacation"? I've been to many places, and I can tell you that I haven't found that to be true. I have a friend who spent even 6 months in India, and when he came back he said he regretted it, he thought it would be a spiritual journey but it wasn't. If you want to go and live somewhere else in the world, thats something I can understand. but traveling just for "the experience" in my eyes often comes up short of what you thought it would be.
Typical Tofu I agree. I had the same experience as your friend, you end being a voyeur peering in on the lives of others with the majority of real contact is with people determined honestly or not to make money from you.
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"
As someone who had pin balled all over the province I live, I want nothing more then a stable home and to enjoy my small adventures close to home. The thought of travel fills me with crippling anxiety. Even though all my friends have traveled and encourage it.
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.
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.
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.
namehere Exactly why I don't have expectations anymore. It only sets you up to be let down because the trip wasn't what you envisioned in your head. Expect the worst, and be pleasantly surprised when it doesn't come to fruition.
try stoicism ;) its the problem which lies in expectations at all! had a huge fight with you family to christmas? guess what, you had to high expectation from anyone else!
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 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 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.
Well put. Travel is not for everyone. I love it. Almost always. But what's amazing for me can be frustrating, scary or boring for someone else. Definitely don't travel just to follow a crowd, or create a fake insta life.
I hate traveling, I am the only one? I have no desire to travel anymore outside my country. Just wasting money on one week vacation... I designed my life when everyday is vacation...
Im with you man. Traveling is fucking overrated like people only wanna go to new countries only to impress others by taking some pointless seflies and shit even when you know traveling puts you’re life on the line it aint worth it. More people should be happy with everything they have in they’re home-country cause traveling doesnt really make you’re happy on the fact that you live you’re life temporarily which ironically is worse cause you know you feeling happy being at new countries doesnt last long
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@thepastelthread5963 i am sorry about how vague my comment was. 2 years later - i am in a place where i actually enjoy travel. But at times i still go that place, the place where i believe i'm torturing myself by travelling. what i meant by torture was : When you travel - you are far from your daily comforts (your bed, the lighting you like, your home, the familiarity, the security); you are hugely out of your comfort zone (new language, culture, rules etc.) Sure, you might stay in a luxurious hotel and actually have more comforts than your own home - but at the end of the day travel = wasting time and money; a luxury many don't have. By glamorizing travel, it adds unnecessary pressure on people who cant afford these. I look at travel more as an adventure. Now, everyone has a different definition of torture. This is mine. I definitely dont discourage travel. But excessive travel - yes, over glamorizing travel - yes.
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.
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!!!
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.
Um, no. Yes, a lot of people have a warped view of travel because all they see is other people's Instagram posts where they are smiling on a beautiful beach while sipping Pina Coladas, and we are completely unaware of the fact that just 15 minutes later the sunny weather turned to a thunderstorm and their day went to shit, but that is not a problem with travel; it's a problem with expectations from travel. Every year for the past 12 years I've gone on at least one long 3-4 week vacation to a wonderfully exotic destination, and every few months I'll make an effort to go on a shorter vacation somewhere closer to home (Generally continental Europe). Both I and the people I took along with me loved every single one of those travels, but I also realised why so many said that their own holidays were never as good as the ones that I brought them along on. People expect to look at a few pictures, book a hotel, a flight, and have the time of their lives. Going on a good holiday couldn't be further from that. Going on a holiday means reading around 12-15 travel books of 400-1000 pages each (I would recommend a combination of Lonely Planet with National Geographic Explorer), reading hundreds of reviews, making a list of around 30 things/ day you'd want to do, cutting those 30 things to the 7 or 8 which you think are the most worthwhile, fitting them all together so that no time is wasted, creating a route, reading more reviews because now you've gotta choose hotels, deciding if you're gonna use public transport or rent a car, deciding if you think you're gonna need to book a tour for anything you want to visit, looking for places to eat that fit your budget, tastes and allotted time and then maybe leaving around 2-3 hours spare each day so that you can spend a bit more time if you come across a particularly great thing that you want to spend more time with. Most people's travels suck not because they bring themselves along, but because they book 10 days in Rome when the only thing they know about Rome is the fact that Colosseum and Roman Forum are there. Then they show up, view those things within a day or two, eat in some tourist trap, and then go on some random and undoubtedly boring tour organised by some shitty agency for the next few days. Of course they will then go back to worrying about their job and the problems of daily life; how could they not? They've got nothing to do. It's sad to see you clearly identify the end problem of what makes the travels of so many bad, while failing to notice that the underlying problem is not that fact that you're along for the ride, rather the fact that you likely failed to put in the hundreds of hours of effort to plan out a great holiday. A good holiday is a 10 day escape that keeps you engaged, entertained, in awe or filled to the brim with expectation for most of the time. It takes about 3-6 months of daily work to plan out a 1-week vacation or about 12 to 18 months to plan out a 2-3 week one. If you do it right, you won't have time to worry about your problems or to notice the ugly garbage on the floor because you'll be moving from car to museum to monument to restaurant to car to hike to the hotel with no wasted time. It's not a dream that post cards fool us into believing, it is something that anyone can enjoy and something that you will not regret spending money on. It just takes a lot of effort to do. It is in many ways analogous to writing the scrip for a play; behind the 2 hours of perfect direction and storytelling are hundreads of hours of scrapped ideas. The same is true for travelling. Sadly, by not confronting people about that good travelling takes effort, and instead telling them that what is ruining their travels is something inherent to travelling, so many of the people watching this will never get to enjoy the wonderful experience of leaving all your problems behind for 3 weeks and just taking in the culture, beauty, landscape and food of a foreign place.
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.
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. 😑
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."
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 :-)
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.
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 😊
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.
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?
Jackal Unleashed Also, leisure time as we have today didn't exist - people just worked, ate, slept. Earlier on, travel was exploration and, as you said, dangerous. Now travel is performance: carefully edited pictures and footage for public consumption 😊
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.
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.
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.
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 agree. went through the same think during my travels. people are always like "I wanna go to Hawaii my life would be so much better" but you know what. there are people who are depressed in Hawaii. people who work and live there. its just another place with nicer weather. if you feel like you need to get out of your city and be somewhere else there*s something to deal with at home that you're supressing. you will eventually have to deal with it once you get home or you'll never be happy. don't get me wrong - I love traveling and think its healthy, but don't do it because you're trying to run away from something.
The reality of our dreams and fantasies are always depressing but without the experience of being where or how you want you won't learn to love or like or even miss the reality of anything. Like i want to go to NY yes dirty busy weird new york but that's what i'm going for all of it not only the picturesque parts.
Will McEwan I'm almost blind. He's a bit wrong and a bit right.... but it's easier than it sounds. Just remember you have to live in your skin. Easier for me.
It's not depressing at all. You get to go places with yourself. Hardly 'your' experience if you weren't there to experience it. Travel provides a great opportunity for self reflection, observation and future planing. It gives the time to learn about oneself and develop oneself, also to see the patterns that make us unhappy overseas and at home so we may unwind them to be happier when we return.
I traveled to China. I saw people, landmarks, bought goods, and ate food. I could have saved $$ and did the same by not traveling. Traveling is a mental escape for people who need it.
I think the point of this video should be that people shouldn't expect to gain happiness and fulfillment through travel, even though they may experience both of these emotions. Travel can be wonderful but by living for travel (or anything for that matter), we fail to be present in our lives and miss out on so much.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
I've tried it and it wasn't for me. of the 6 or so international trips I've been on, I've never felt satisfied by them. how can you learn a culture in a couple weeks? how can you connect with people you can't talk to? I'd rather see it all on VR from the comfort of my home.
How can you learn a culture in a couple of weeks? You cannot. But you can certainly immerse yourself in it. Step 1 is buying food where the locals do and only where the locals do. Step 2 is bedding down where the locals do, not in zoned hotel spaces, but in homestays. And so on and so forth. Basically, you have to note that you are walking in the direction of a tourist destination and quickly do an about-face and walk the other way. Oh, and meet the locals. Talk to them. Listen to their stories. The locals are your 'tourist attraction', not museums.
@@JenniLevenbookI've lived in two different countries. 2 weeks is not enough to fully immerse yourself in their culture. It takes about at least a year to have deep understanding. You'll only have a shallow understanding in short of period of time. Travelling is mostly for privileged people that people from poor countries could ever dream of. So no being in 20 different countries just means you're rich and it's somewhat classiest to those who live in poorer countries.
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.
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 ✨✨
I travel for education, adventure, and local foods and music. I've been doing it a few times a year for about two decades now. Never interested in merely relaxing at a beach all day. Those "hardships" mentioned in this video are expected, and quite frankly, all part of the adventure. To smack my life out of the routine I'm used to at home. Like anything in life - your mindset determines what you'll get out of it. This video seems to be from someone with a negative depressing mindset on things. Or, perhaps, someone desperate for "unique" youtube content?
I like traveling to try local foods as well :) I haven't been to many places yet since I'm only 18 but I get pretty excited when trying new foods (That's why being in an Airplane never bothered me since they tend to have food I've never had before :P) The video does seem really pessimistic about traveling :/
I completely agree... anyone who has done any sort of international traveling outside of just sitting at a beach resort already knows that traveling is not all glamorous and much of it can be monotonous and even irritating. The reason people travel is to break the day to day cycle and try to learn more about themselves and the places and people they visit.
@Not Right Music. Then you forget that not everyone is you. A lot of people who travels have a very idealistic view of traveling and often take the easiest way out and staying in the best location of the place which usually means sheltered from all the problems the country have. The activities they engaged are predominately just shopping. Something which they can do in their own country. This video is a good video for people who do not think like you and not yet realize what they think about traveling is, are nothing but a fabrication of their own idealistic view. The video talks about the mindset of those people Not of those who think like you who doesn't need this video to realize that travelling is a education process.
I think it was clear enough. It is the expectation that "traveling" in the proposed sense (see a picture that looks amazing and buy into it) will be a fix to many things (whatever they may be: emotions, feelings, character, fun, etc). Like seeing somebody snowboarding and you jump into it, sure it looks awesome and refreshing, but the reality is, the first time ever it will be painful, full of dangerous falls, one or two concussions, maybe even a blackout, sweating, fear and pain at -15C... for me it became the best thing ever, sure, but not for most. Especially when there is a very well oiled machine putting very well crafted pictures for us to consume (as opposed to long infinite video playback of a succession single things like most of the travel will be), social media people showing ONLY the VERY positive few key moments, etc. It also helps maybe understand on a trend I have seen lately, quite a few friends (mostly women closing on their 30s), are down to travel like it was crack. And if not traveling, they are planning the next travel. They say if they could be traveling 8months of the year they would do it... the way it's conveyed, makes me question what is it they are escaping from? 8months? why not move to this random place better then and travel back to your city sometimes? This puts a different light, it's not what do we try to escape from, it's more "what are we chasing". Traveling for education, adventure, foods and music is a more complete and honest approach in my opinion. Especially if it is clear that sometimes it could be a botched adventure with more hardships than leisure.
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 think you misunderstood. "bringing yourself" also includes things like your physical state, such as "oh man the view from this mountain is great but I actually should have eaten more at lunch because I'm now very hungry and its quite distracting me from appreciating this view" or "I've broken my glasses and will have to locate a person in this rural region who can repair them or give me new ones, this will take a lot of time I hadn't planned" or "I thought this boat ride through the islands would be really scenic, however I didn't realize it would make me quite so seasick" or "I'm in a foreign country and I have spent half my vacation time in bed with food poisoning" or "I really brought the wrong shoes for this walk, my feet are hurting but the tour isn't over".
@@zurechtweiser I focus on the whole experience, from the time I leave my house I'm an entirely new person and all I want to do is to perceive the environment and the culture that I'm around, and whatever it is that may happen even if it is not pleasant. Only when I arrive back home that I take a couple of days off to remember what I did, I don't even try to plan too much because once you do that you are enclosuring yourself within a specific boundary, we are beings that live and learn and react with the world based on experience. To bring yourself is like using a colorful glasses to watch a picture, you are not perceiving it as it is but through the lenses of that person that came with you on the trip. Be on the moment. It will change you and the way you experience everything around.
Here's my take on travel. I think traveling is done more to benefit and satisfy one self, more so than care for the places visited, like for selfish reasons you might say. Pictures of places you visited are like trophies to show off. We travel to feel special and receive attention. When you're a traveler and guest, you are treated nicely, but if you were to live next to or with those same people everyday, it would be different. Also, the many popular and great places you want to see, are ruined by hordes of tourists just like you wanting to see them. Happy travels!
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...
"don't need the funny moment repeated over and over again" Yeah tell that to the garbage FUNNY GIFS 2017 COMPILATION/TRY NOT TO LAUGH videos all over UA-cam
I don't think the video is being negative, it's just saying to be realistic about travel. Travel is not really "vacation"; it involves the reality of logistics, physical demand, and emotional expectation. It doesn't necessarily make you smarter or enriched. I've been to four countries in the last year and even moved to Japan, and I find the video's general message to be true, but not pessimistic. We feel accomplished in going through the act of travel, but we really end up looking for the same things to survive to see something for a short time. Good feelings and memories of a place comes more from the people you're with or who you meet, not the 'place' in of itself. I like travel as much as anybody, but this is the reality.
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.
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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."
Hubert Shitmeyer relatable
not the same for everyone, I travelled and moved 1000 km away from home and my entire life changed for the better. I would have probably gone insane living in that fucked up place by now, now I am happy and excited about every thing that comes along my way. back then I hated everything
@@xxxmmm3812 this has to do with reason you were depressed.
Some might be depressed due to financial reason, other due to family/relationship issues, some do not like themselves, some do not like world, some do not know why they are depressed. Depending on type and severity travelling can be solution
@@fancyfox9148 Hält dich das davon ab, nach Ägypten zu gehen?
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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 like your latest Instagram post caption that goes along with your argument: "Don't tell me how many countries you have visited, tell me what you learned from them."
trip1666 nothing, I am pretty far away 😂😂😂
Wise words, my friend.
Exactly what I was thinking while watching this video. Backpacking the world isn't the same as being on an all you can eat & drink cruise ship.
anuma Alan por el mundo 😱
“You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
DrProgrammer I read that book. Jake said that right?
Wherever you go, there you are.
"You discover yourself when going on an adventure" -Ashlei Leilani Johnson
Exactly but it's not a problem in the long run. In the modern world travel is the only time we have to take a moment and find out who we really are, and what we really want. The dream of numbing out in paradise for a few weeks is boring and a waste in comparison to getting closer to yourself and all the possibilities that brings to ones life.
Jesse Claire or you could just meditate.
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.
Amen
😂 insane
Relatable.
So true! People snob at the idea that you can be at peace and internally validated in your own country or region.
Overly praise or disdain places they have only visited for a day or week.
And passport stamps are won as symbols of status. I am not against travel but it shouldn’t be a measure of success.
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
So true! But I, as an artist would probably bring my sketchbook. Drawing an environment from observation requires one to really notice everything around you. And certainly there would be no selfies in a travel sketchbook!
so true 🌝
I traveled to Europe decades before Facebook and took over 300 photos with my little Instamatic camera! So glad I did so my granddaughters could see me in Italy, Paris , London and Madrid wearing my mini skirts and bell bottom jeans! Time capsule material!
@@brendadrew834 is it those Polaroid cameras??
Show off traveller. They got superiority complex.
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!
No fomo?
@@zurechtweiser no homo
@@KostasGrand no fomo
@@bewater6684 are you sure?
@@KostasGrand fomo= fear of missing out.
"No matter where you go, there you are" - Yogi Berra. Travel without expectations and you'll be fine.
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.
Same
Same here.
Travel maniacs will imply that i'm an ignorant Hill Billy.
Same here, I find my every day life interesting enough, and travel is just a huge pain in the butt, it’s easy to feel your wrong for not wanting to travel but just remember there is a multi billion dollar industry conspiring to make you feel that way. People who love traveling are just like junkies seeking that next rise in brain chemicals and it’s like most things in life the more you get the more you want.
Yeah I'm the same. If I have time off work I like to keep it local. I simply like staying home and not waking up to an alarm clock. Going out for a hike or even just a trip to the neighborhood 7/11 for a snack. It's small stuff but it's the stuff I don't get to do in my day to day life and I enjoy that way more than travelling.
Agreed. Im good staying in my home-country because ive got everything i need here, Only people with no real hobbies think traveling is the only way to be happy
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.
How i agree so much with u 😭!
@@dhruvshukla2389 Introverts unite! It's okay to not want or like to travel. It doesn't make you ignorant or a worse person than anyone else. We don't all have to like the same things.
@@mchobbit2951 Its moreover questionable why the average Joe should be visiting a random village in thailand. Poor villagers. Poor villagers they go through so much work and also now feed tourists making them gifts, they would feed their kids with to a stranger who could probaply buy them a complete new house.
I am becoming much more like this. My desire to travel has almost completely died and now I'm more focused on finding a retirement place where I can be a part of the community and just live a peaceful life enjoying nature, my friends and family and pets.
@@sml0266 That sounds lovely. It's okay to change. You presumably had your wild traveling days and grew tired of it as retirement is drawing near.
I'm exploring my hometown and surrounding area as a tourist would this summer. It's interesting what you discover that way. Restaurants, museums and hiking paths you just always walked past or somehow never knew about.
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
Yes but it's a sad escapism, but better than nothing for these people I assume
You are exactly right. And you could just go to places locally for free to get that hit of dopamine. We are programmed by big business to think we need to travel to be happy, all while making others rich and us poor
Majority of the people who do this are trying to make money on followers or have mental issues. In other words they need reassurance. In any case, other than using their phone as a camera or video to capture genuine moments, it's best to stay off social media when you're traveling
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...
So create a life you don’t want to escape from
I realized I'm not the traveling type when returning home literally became the happiest moment of the every trip...
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.
This is soo relatable ❤
Been there, done that!
Emphasis on the sleep well
I enjoy travel but what pisses me off are people who went to the same destination and judges you for your own trip plan/decisions. They think they are better because they stayed and did more during a week when all I wanted is a nice 2-3 days in a city.
Everyone has their own plans and its not always same except if we travel together. Everyone has their own travel budgets, schedule, and ideas of what makes them happy. Those elitists are annoying, and maybe deep down unhappy since it seems they are in a contest to get more selfies or points on a map. IDK lol.
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 >.
Channel for Positivity l Understanding l Justice Yep. All the pretentious posturing that missed the point. Like the video says, people carry a lot of baggage. Hopefully, they'll discover in time that luggage.
Photos can never replace the actual wonderful experiences like eating crepes on the Eiffel Tower, like I did when I was in beautiful Paris! Glad I took the photos I did so I could enjoy revisiting my wonderful trip which I never regretted taking for one second! Merci beaucoup~
i wanna travel because this planet is freaking awesome and I want to experience all of it, even the little travel ive done has left me in awe and my partner says he loves the glow in my eyes every time we get to see something new. it isn't the point of life but it is hella amazing
Exactly
whenever i travel, i am always underwhelmed. Landmarks are smaller than imagined, food is less unique and the cost is outstanding
LOL. I get you. At the end of the day, traveling is just not worth it. Or maybe it's not for everyone.
That's your problem for picking the wrong destinations lol
@@FsimulatorX what would you say is a good destination then?
And another thing to consider is when you travel to another country your a foreigner, the people will usually treat you prity well but that’s because they see you as a cash machine!!
Had to travel a lot this year, at first I was excited, but few months later I realised how overrated travelling is. Must say that some very few destinations make it worth, for me it was Hanoi, Bangkok, Krakow, Bansko and Austrian/Italian alps if you live with locals, not as a tourist.
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.
Exactly!!!
Wise words:)
THIS. Thank you :)
True.
I don't think anywhere is a "shit-hole". Did Trump really indoctrinate us with that line of thinking? I hope not. Anyhow, I've temporarily lived in 2 of my home countries of Venezuela and Palestine. You'd assume they were "shit-holes" bc of the problems they're facing, but they're incredibly beautiful countries in their own right. There are no beaches or foods quite like those in Venezuela, and Palestine's esoteric vibe, deliciously dense windy weather, and unique smells makes it feel like you entered a portal into another world. I've also visited Columbia, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Spain, China, etc. and all of them had beautiful & interesting places.
As an American, I learned that the assumptions we make about a country because of its wealth, or government politics, or drug wars, only exist in small sections within a country that the news likes to highlight and hyperbolize. These countries are large and vast. There's going to be bad places, sure. But for the most part, there are engaging sites and hospitable people, who make this absolutist idea of a "shit-hole" country, non-existent. People who tend to believe that characterization about a country, have never visited that country and are likely to be ignorant about the nuances of the world. Such uncultured people would benefit from some travel and cultural exchange.
To be fair, I'm sure you meant to say "a miserable person could go to the nicest place and a happy person could go to a misperceived "shitty" place, but wherever they go, there they are." If that's the case, yes I can agree. Except I am a miserable person with PTSD from years as a war civilian and poverty, and it's bc of those experiences, that miserable people like me can look for the silver lining in "ugly places" and will likely prefer hole-in-the-walls over tourist traps. I learned you'll find better experiences in the poorer local areas than you'd ever find in a luxurious city surrounded by annoying travelers.
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 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.
Maya L I completely agree with you
funny, in my experience what you'd call a "triumph" I call an exhausting menial task. I can roam the streets of belgium in Google street view thank you very much, and when I get tired of that I can have my own favourite coffee in my own comfortable home.
Only thinking about that gives me anxiety. Ok, even after you have done all these, you go home to your boring repeating routine with less money and more depresseing thoughts. But hey, you ordered a coffee in french woah
Now this is me XD. Just being able to function normally in foreign land is such an accomplishment haha
I think these are not good reasons to travel
You'll never have this problem if you're too beoke to travel
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.
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.
I agree. If done right, travel is growth, growing makes us happy.
But are sure about that? Are you sure that happiness isn't another temporary illusion of life?
If so, what does it even matter, why not prefer happiness illusion than sad illusion, why even worry?
Suprito Saumik what are you even implying, going by that logic you could argue that sadness is just another illusion of life.
Climb up mount Everest
Lose some fingers, both your feet.. stay for the coffee!
Holiday stress is real. Holiday joy is an illusion. Do not fall for it. Stay home.
Party on !
Agreed 👍
@@minikhekhan436 U know it by experience
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.
TheExplorer Why do you keep saying the same thing in all these comments? Why are you so against travelling and paying poor people?
TheExplorer well, if you hate it so much don't do it. But for the same reason you don't want other people telling you to travel, don't tell others that they shouldn't travel just because you happened to have crappy travelling experiences
Yep I planned on a year backpacking in Asia got through eight months and was really homesick and it started to seem mundane I would arrive somewhere and be like yep temple check funky hostel with place to wash underwear check central business district check tourist market check local bars check little tiny stools to sit on and eat noodles check, speaking to locals in local language and have them pat my head and I am amazing check. However this is my experience individual results may vary now I prefer short breaks and a bit more luxury
judging by the comments, the outcomes of traveling depends on you as individual.
@TheExplorer I’m sure you’re fun at parties.
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.
Jen Y the video was called "The Problem With Travel", not "The Pros And Cons Of Travel"
polives and thats the problem
As romantic as that sounds, sometimes traveling has the opposite effect. Some people decide midway that they would rather be at home. Sometimes people find the local cuisine disgusting and make a beeline for McDonalds. Whether or not these experiences "opens up their minds" is up to them, but it would probably just end up being an anecdote to tell their friends back home.
Palkys wow that's the most sour comment I've read in a long time. People who can afford to travel are likely shallower than those who cannot? ... Just WOW
I completely agree with Palkys’ comments. Travel can open up your mind, but that requires willingness and proper planning that actually lets you experience something new. There are increasingly many ways to gain equivalent experiences at home though.
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.
Amen 🙏🏻, imagine if all 7billion people got to travel like westerners the planet would be trashed within one year.
The problem with travel is the cost
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Travelling can be much cheaper than living the mundane life. If you sleep in hostels for 10 dollars a day like i did for years. Living in the city has ruined me
... and the least of the problem is " the back of the head of the tax driver" ...
Well depends on how you live. If you bought an expensive car/house, eat out a lot, you could buy something cheaper, live a simpler lifestyle and travel more.
The cost and the fact it’s just momentary, you get home it’s over and all that is left are sone hazy memories and pictures no one else is interested in.
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.
everywhere you go, there you are ..
@@rayo1371 exactly
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).
Well put!! Thank you~ Bon Voyage etc.
absolutely true
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
Thank you thank you. finally a comment that's reasonable! I'm actually traveling myself and experiencing a lot of what you're saying
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.
The irony is they travel to places where people are stone-still meditators and have never left their village. I wouldn’t be so blunt if travellers didn’t “start it”.
After your meditation, your problems are still there.
@@zurechtweiser Meditation doesn’t clear problems, it just gives us the calmness to go through them 🙂
True.
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 ❤️
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Exactly
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.”
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.
Surprises me you dislike travel so much considering your username haha
Seems like a simple documentary would suffice.
They didn't discourage anybody from traveling. It's pointless to do so. They just warned that it may not solve some unrelated problems if there are any.
What is this conclusion based on? I don't get it.
TheExplorer why are you so against this? What if you don't want to see the people, but the spectacles? The beauty of the Earth? Such pessimism is not good.
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.
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.
This stems from how superficial people are in their daily perceptions, so the problem is in that rather than in travel itself.
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.
You've got a point there. I hate it when people act like you're some kind of boring loser just because if you haven't been to every country in the world.
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.
Trench yes!!
However sometimes the new definition of leisure time fits the spiritual view of living in the moment and simply enjoying the mundane, far more, so it can go both ways clearly.
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
can you truly learn a culture in a few weeks? can you really understand the lives of a people in the time of your "vacation"? I've been to many places, and I can tell you that I haven't found that to be true. I have a friend who spent even 6 months in India, and when he came back he said he regretted it, he thought it would be a spiritual journey but it wasn't. If you want to go and live somewhere else in the world, thats something I can understand. but traveling just for "the experience" in my eyes often comes up short of what you thought it would be.
Typical Tofu I agree. I had the same experience as your friend, you end being a voyeur peering in on the lives of others with the majority of real contact is with people determined honestly or not to make money from you.
Not everyone has the money to do that shit
Shadow_ Kitty you make your own choices in life the worlds your oyster don't let anyone get in the way of your dreams
Alice DB woops typo obviously :/
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"
As someone who had pin balled all over the province I live, I want nothing more then a stable home and to enjoy my small adventures close to home. The thought of travel fills me with crippling anxiety. Even though all my friends have traveled and encourage it.
So you're saying I should just drop LSD instead?
You cant travel too all places LSD can take. But it will be healthy.
This is more real than many would like to admit I believe
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.
"There's no geographical solution to an emotional problem."
Andy Brice the truth! 👏🏼👏🏼
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.
Nicely put
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.
namehere Exactly why I don't have expectations anymore. It only sets you up to be let down because the trip wasn't what you envisioned in your head. Expect the worst, and be pleasantly surprised when it doesn't come to fruition.
Just don't go on holidays. Go on adventures.
try stoicism ;) its the problem which lies in expectations at all! had a huge fight with you family to christmas? guess what, you had to high expectation from anyone else!
I usually just found a change of scenery refreshing and those expectations are easily met.
namehere I think most people didn't really get the message SchoolofLife meant to deliver...
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.
"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore".
"There's no place like home"
-Dorothy
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 😊
The problem is not traveling itself.
The problem is when we see travel as a salvation of our inner problems.
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.
Well put. Travel is not for everyone. I love it. Almost always. But what's amazing for me can be frustrating, scary or boring for someone else. Definitely don't travel just to follow a crowd, or create a fake insta life.
"Bad news sells better than Good news." Most things have a good and bad side; important to note that.
I hate traveling, I am the only one? I have no desire to travel anymore outside my country. Just wasting money on one week vacation... I designed my life when everyday is vacation...
Im with you man. Traveling is fucking overrated like people only wanna go to new countries only to impress others by taking some pointless seflies and shit even when you know traveling puts you’re life on the line it aint worth it. More people should be happy with everything they have in they’re home-country cause traveling doesnt really make you’re happy on the fact that you live you’re life temporarily which ironically is worse cause you know you feeling happy being at new countries doesnt last long
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!
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.
Nevermind, you didn't understand the video, nor my reply.
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.
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.
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.
I am just curious. what do you mean by "end up torturing youself by travelling"?
How come?
@@thepastelthread5963 i am sorry about how vague my comment was. 2 years later - i am in a place where i actually enjoy travel. But at times i still go that place, the place where i believe i'm torturing myself by travelling. what i meant by torture was : When you travel - you are far from your daily comforts (your bed, the lighting you like, your home, the familiarity, the security); you are hugely out of your comfort zone (new language, culture, rules etc.) Sure, you might stay in a luxurious hotel and actually have more comforts than your own home - but at the end of the day travel = wasting time and money; a luxury many don't have. By glamorizing travel, it adds unnecessary pressure on people who cant afford these. I look at travel more as an adventure.
Now, everyone has a different definition of torture. This is mine. I definitely dont discourage travel. But excessive travel - yes, over glamorizing travel - yes.
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.
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!!!
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.
Um, no. Yes, a lot of people have a warped view of travel because all they see is other people's Instagram posts where they are smiling on a beautiful beach while sipping Pina Coladas, and we are completely unaware of the fact that just 15 minutes later the sunny weather turned to a thunderstorm and their day went to shit, but that is not a problem with travel; it's a problem with expectations from travel. Every year for the past 12 years I've gone on at least one long 3-4 week vacation to a wonderfully exotic destination, and every few months I'll make an effort to go on a shorter vacation somewhere closer to home (Generally continental Europe). Both I and the people I took along with me loved every single one of those travels, but I also realised why so many said that their own holidays were never as good as the ones that I brought them along on.
People expect to look at a few pictures, book a hotel, a flight, and have the time of their lives. Going on a good holiday couldn't be further from that. Going on a holiday means reading around 12-15 travel books of 400-1000 pages each (I would recommend a combination of Lonely Planet with National Geographic Explorer), reading hundreds of reviews, making a list of around 30 things/ day you'd want to do, cutting those 30 things to the 7 or 8 which you think are the most worthwhile, fitting them all together so that no time is wasted, creating a route, reading more reviews because now you've gotta choose hotels, deciding if you're gonna use public transport or rent a car, deciding if you think you're gonna need to book a tour for anything you want to visit, looking for places to eat that fit your budget, tastes and allotted time and then maybe leaving around 2-3 hours spare each day so that you can spend a bit more time if you come across a particularly great thing that you want to spend more time with.
Most people's travels suck not because they bring themselves along, but because they book 10 days in Rome when the only thing they know about Rome is the fact that Colosseum and Roman Forum are there. Then they show up, view those things within a day or two, eat in some tourist trap, and then go on some random and undoubtedly boring tour organised by some shitty agency for the next few days. Of course they will then go back to worrying about their job and the problems of daily life; how could they not? They've got nothing to do. It's sad to see you clearly identify the end problem of what makes the travels of so many bad, while failing to notice that the underlying problem is not that fact that you're along for the ride, rather the fact that you likely failed to put in the hundreds of hours of effort to plan out a great holiday.
A good holiday is a 10 day escape that keeps you engaged, entertained, in awe or filled to the brim with expectation for most of the time. It takes about 3-6 months of daily work to plan out a 1-week vacation or about 12 to 18 months to plan out a 2-3 week one. If you do it right, you won't have time to worry about your problems or to notice the ugly garbage on the floor because you'll be moving from car to museum to monument to restaurant to car to hike to the hotel with no wasted time. It's not a dream that post cards fool us into believing, it is something that anyone can enjoy and something that you will not regret spending money on. It just takes a lot of effort to do. It is in many ways analogous to writing the scrip for a play; behind the 2 hours of perfect direction and storytelling are hundreads of hours of scrapped ideas. The same is true for travelling.
Sadly, by not confronting people about that good travelling takes effort, and instead telling them that what is ruining their travels is something inherent to travelling, so many of the people watching this will never get to enjoy the wonderful experience of leaving all your problems behind for 3 weeks and just taking in the culture, beauty, landscape and food of a foreign place.
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.
It not the same thing as travelling in real life.
Yea less hassle
My thoughts exactly! You reap all the rewards of travelling without its pains!
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. 😑
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."
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 :-)
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.
Absolutely
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 😊
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.
Well said my friend!
This video proves that if you look you could find problems everywhere
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?
Jackal Unleashed Also, leisure time as we have today didn't exist - people just worked, ate, slept. Earlier on, travel was exploration and, as you said, dangerous. Now travel is performance: carefully edited pictures and footage for public consumption 😊
I think I like turtles
apparently the 'I like turtles' kid had a youtube channel for awhile
I think you're both pretty and smart.
Protector of the Republic is that releavent?
Travel is about learning and having fun, not always pleasurable but worth it than accumulating too many stuff at home.
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.
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.
Travel creates justified prejudice and confirms bias.
Food adventure 😂
I've seen that people who travel too much are actually really unhappy, dissatisfied and superficial (not all of course).
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.
Maybe I'm weird but I enjoy the whole travel experience, getting lost, Airports, running around is like an adventure to me
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.
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 agree. went through the same think during my travels. people are always like "I wanna go to Hawaii my life would be so much better" but you know what. there are people who are depressed in Hawaii. people who work and live there. its just another place with nicer weather. if you feel like you need to get out of your city and be somewhere else there*s something to deal with at home that you're supressing. you will eventually have to deal with it once you get home or you'll never be happy. don't get me wrong - I love traveling and think its healthy, but don't do it because you're trying to run away from something.
Well this is depressing
Tradutora Brazuca then why did you type "XD" like it was funny?
The reality of our dreams and fantasies are always depressing but without the experience of being where or how you want you won't learn to love or like or even miss the reality of anything. Like i want to go to NY yes dirty busy weird new york but that's what i'm going for all of it not only the picturesque parts.
Will McEwan Hm, maybe just on a fist glance. But rather this is liberating. You will understand it I believe.
Will McEwan I'm almost blind. He's a bit wrong and a bit right.... but it's easier than it sounds. Just remember you have to live in your skin. Easier for me.
It's not depressing at all. You get to go places with yourself. Hardly 'your' experience if you weren't there to experience it. Travel provides a great opportunity for self reflection, observation and future planing. It gives the time to learn about oneself and develop oneself, also to see the patterns that make us unhappy overseas and at home so we may unwind them to be happier when we return.
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not"
source pls
Diego Gonzalez Ralph Waldo Emerson I think
Khalil Gibran ;)
I traveled to China. I saw people, landmarks, bought goods, and ate food. I could have saved $$ and did the same by not traveling. Traveling is a mental escape for people who need it.
I think the point of this video should be that people shouldn't expect to gain happiness and fulfillment through travel, even though they may experience both of these emotions. Travel can be wonderful but by living for travel (or anything for that matter), we fail to be present in our lives and miss out on so much.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
true it depends on the individual's character
I've tried it and it wasn't for me. of the 6 or so international trips I've been on, I've never felt satisfied by them. how can you learn a culture in a couple weeks? how can you connect with people you can't talk to? I'd rather see it all on VR from the comfort of my home.
How can you learn a culture in a couple of weeks? You cannot. But you can certainly immerse yourself in it. Step 1 is buying food where the locals do and only where the locals do. Step 2 is bedding down where the locals do, not in zoned hotel spaces, but in homestays. And so on and so forth. Basically, you have to note that you are walking in the direction of a tourist destination and quickly do an about-face and walk the other way.
Oh, and meet the locals. Talk to them. Listen to their stories. The locals are your 'tourist attraction', not museums.
@@JenniLevenbookI've lived in two different countries. 2 weeks is not enough to fully immerse yourself in their culture. It takes about at least a year to have deep understanding. You'll only have a shallow understanding in short of period of time. Travelling is mostly for privileged people that people from poor countries could ever dream of. So no being in 20 different countries just means you're rich and it's somewhat classiest to those who live in poorer countries.
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 wish the video provided ways to address the problem more than just to "daydream from the comfort of your home" though. I dislike the video.
It was done right to not do that. It is supposed to make people think not be spoonfed.
This is not to discourage travel, but do so more wisely.
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 ✨✨
I travel for education, adventure, and local foods and music. I've been doing it a few times a year for about two decades now. Never interested in merely relaxing at a beach all day. Those "hardships" mentioned in this video are expected, and quite frankly, all part of the adventure. To smack my life out of the routine I'm used to at home. Like anything in life - your mindset determines what you'll get out of it. This video seems to be from someone with a negative depressing mindset on things. Or, perhaps, someone desperate for "unique" youtube content?
I like traveling to try local foods as well :)
I haven't been to many places yet since I'm only 18 but I get pretty excited when trying new foods (That's why being in an Airplane never bothered me since they tend to have food I've never had before :P)
The video does seem really pessimistic about traveling :/
I completely agree... anyone who has done any sort of international traveling outside of just sitting at a beach resort already knows that traveling is not all glamorous and much of it can be monotonous and even irritating. The reason people travel is to break the day to day cycle and try to learn more about themselves and the places and people they visit.
@Not Right Music.
Then you forget that not everyone is you.
A lot of people who travels have a very idealistic view of traveling and often take the easiest way out and staying in the best location of the place which usually means sheltered from all the problems the country have.
The activities they engaged are predominately just shopping. Something which they can do in their own country.
This video is a good video for people who do not think like you and not yet realize what they think about traveling is, are nothing but a fabrication of their own idealistic view.
The video talks about the mindset of those people Not of those who think like you who doesn't need this video to realize that travelling is a education process.
I think it was clear enough. It is the expectation that "traveling" in the proposed sense (see a picture that looks amazing and buy into it) will be a fix to many things (whatever they may be: emotions, feelings, character, fun, etc). Like seeing somebody snowboarding and you jump into it, sure it looks awesome and refreshing, but the reality is, the first time ever it will be painful, full of dangerous falls, one or two concussions, maybe even a blackout, sweating, fear and pain at -15C... for me it became the best thing ever, sure, but not for most. Especially when there is a very well oiled machine putting very well crafted pictures for us to consume (as opposed to long infinite video playback of a succession single things like most of the travel will be), social media people showing ONLY the VERY positive few key moments, etc.
It also helps maybe understand on a trend I have seen lately, quite a few friends (mostly women closing on their 30s), are down to travel like it was crack. And if not traveling, they are planning the next travel. They say if they could be traveling 8months of the year they would do it... the way it's conveyed, makes me question what is it they are escaping from? 8months? why not move to this random place better then and travel back to your city sometimes?
This puts a different light, it's not what do we try to escape from, it's more "what are we chasing".
Traveling for education, adventure, foods and music is a more complete and honest approach in my opinion. Especially if it is clear that sometimes it could be a botched adventure with more hardships than leisure.
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...
thanks for your last sentence. I'll try to apply it no my next travel. it makes sense
I think you misunderstood. "bringing yourself" also includes things like your physical state, such as "oh man the view from this mountain is great but I actually should have eaten more at lunch because I'm now very hungry and its quite distracting me from appreciating this view" or "I've broken my glasses and will have to locate a person in this rural region who can repair them or give me new ones, this will take a lot of time I hadn't planned" or "I thought this boat ride through the islands would be really scenic, however I didn't realize it would make me quite so seasick" or "I'm in a foreign country and I have spent half my vacation time in bed with food poisoning" or "I really brought the wrong shoes for this walk, my feet are hurting but the tour isn't over".
Yes, always leave yourself at home
How do you not bring yourself?
@@zurechtweiser I focus on the whole experience, from the time I leave my house I'm an entirely new person and all I want to do is to perceive the environment and the culture that I'm around, and whatever it is that may happen even if it is not pleasant. Only when I arrive back home that I take a couple of days off to remember what I did, I don't even try to plan too much because once you do that you are enclosuring yourself within a specific boundary, we are beings that live and learn and react with the world based on experience. To bring yourself is like using a colorful glasses to watch a picture, you are not perceiving it as it is but through the lenses of that person that came with you on the trip. Be on the moment. It will change you and the way you experience everything around.
Here's my take on travel. I think traveling is done more to benefit and satisfy one self, more so than care for the places visited, like for selfish reasons you might say. Pictures of places you visited are like trophies to show off. We travel to feel special and receive attention. When you're a traveler and guest, you are treated nicely, but if you were to live next to or with those same people everyday, it would be different. Also, the many popular and great places you want to see, are ruined by hordes of tourists just like you wanting to see them. Happy travels!
You should travel for yourself, not for a photo on facebook so that everybody at work can see that you livin good
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.
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...
"don't need the funny moment repeated over and over again"
Yeah tell that to the garbage FUNNY GIFS 2017 COMPILATION/TRY NOT TO LAUGH videos all over UA-cam
I don't think the video is being negative, it's just saying to be realistic about travel. Travel is not really "vacation"; it involves the reality of logistics, physical demand, and emotional expectation. It doesn't necessarily make you smarter or enriched. I've been to four countries in the last year and even moved to Japan, and I find the video's general message to be true, but not pessimistic. We feel accomplished in going through the act of travel, but we really end up looking for the same things to survive to see something for a short time. Good feelings and memories of a place comes more from the people you're with or who you meet, not the 'place' in of itself. I like travel as much as anybody, but this is the reality.
Travel is good if you do it to expand your horizons -- not if it's used to run from your problems.
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.