Travel

In travel, almost always, things don’t go according to plan. There are delays, disappointments or accidents. We are inconvenienced. And so we learn patience, resilience and hopefully kindness to strangers. The difference between what we expect and what we experience from travel is often wide. This is a good metaphor for what we experience in life in general. The fantasies we are sold through media and the retrospective musings of the apparently successful are about as accurate and truthful as the travel brochures and selective holiday snaps. They may not be lies exactly, but they hide a lot of the truth.

— Wayne Visser

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