Browsing: travelling

Proclaiming travel as a personality trait is a cheat code to appearing more interesting, a postured and easy indicator of ‘cool’ to others. If we quantify being interesting as the sum of different experiences in a man’s life, then sure, an avid traveller might win, having ‘seen’ more than someone who stayed in the comfort of their abode hooked to their laptop.

My entire life seems to have been in pursuit of a narrative that fits. The more I see of the world, the more I feel that no place defines me, and no matter where I yearn to go, or have been, my identity is not bound by my context.