I think one of the most important aspects of travelling is the change of scenery. So often when we are at home we lose ourselves in the static and backwash of everyday life. For me travelling is an attempt to rediscover that lost self. By removing myself from all the usual static and replacing it with strangeness (trying to catch trains, rummaging for hostels, trying to buy cigarettes in strange languages), I can observe myself apart from how I usually see myself. The environment is the control and I am the experiment. Somewhere along the way I realized a really important fact about myself though. But that's personal.
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