Quote: (01-12-2016 04:54 AM)Cyclone Wrote:
Travel does not get old.
The people that you meet on your travels, however, and their knowledge/intelligence of the world, reduces relative to your experience, and that is what gets old.
When I was 19 and first moved to Hong Kong, everyone was a mentor to me. If he was 21, 25, 33, expat or local, I could learn something from them. There were even country names I could not pronounce, and the bits of insight provided by even the dumbest drunken douchbags were of fascinating use to me. However, nowadays I struggle to find even the 1% who is more intelligent than me, forcing me to hang out with entrepreneurs who have lived in a multitude of countries in order for me to grow at all. Which is not a bad thing, except you spend a lot of time weeding people out.
Or, perhaps I'm the only one here who travels only to grow / optimize my life back home >_> It depends on what your goals are, but if life optimization is your goal, it only gets old in the sense I described above. Otherwise, you are doing something wrong.
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Sounds like we should be amigos. I pretty much feel the same way, but it's not the easiest to find others in that 1% since we're busy.