I am from the USA and I am very bothered by traveling. I hate being in transit. I hate flying(mostly because I hate the chance of delays or redirects etc). I just don't feel that traveling does anything for me. If I go to some new place, I feel like I'd just do what I am doing now but there. So if I go to restaurant, I am just eating food. If I go sit outside, I am doing that here too. However, I have met many women who seem to be travel addicts and I always wondered why. What is the draw to traveling? Why do it? Should I do more of it even though I hate it?
>>2848659No, stay at home and seethe like an incel forever., plz.
>>2848659Travel is just the means you get to a destination. You travel for the destination
>>2848662But what do you do when the travel never seems worth it? Even for the destination?
>>2848659>traveling is living your daily routine in varied settingsExactly. I have no loyalty to my adopted "home" apart from work obligations, and frankly get pretty fucking tired of walking the same roads and trails for the 50th time. So when work wraps up in the fall, I pick some random spots on the world map to see what my daily routine is like there. Usually it is objectively suckier than my life in America. That's good, because it ensures that I will be glad to return to work next year instead of being one of those mopey post-travel depressive faggots. After all, I picked my adopted hometown of my own free choice after years of traveling various parts of America, so hating it would be entirely nonsensical.
However, I have met many women who seem to be travel addicts and I always wondered why. What is the draw to traveling?Because it's the same as driving a fancy car or having a big house. It's a status symbol that can be perceived as wealth and higher status.Travel is different than a monetary good because most people see travel as either having to have a high-status job that moves you around or you are so well off you can pick and choose. It's also a "oh maybe they can take me there" kinda thing.Like what would you rather date, a girl who's current status is living at home with parents and college debt w/ 20 affirms. OR girl who has their own apartment and car with a consistent job you meet out and about.The answer is obvious.
>>2848729If you're not a connoisseur of places, you won't enjoy travel. Some people can go almost anywhere on the map and encounter something or someone interesting. The reason they don't stay at home is because they already explored every nook and cranny around their hometown.To others, every place seems the same because their attention is glued to their phone screen and they barely even notice their environment, except in a negative sense (it's too hot, there's too many blacks loitering at this gas station, the traffic is horrible, etc).
>>2848668Stop pretending there has to be some grand cosmic purpose to sleeping, eating and moving around as one individual human on a planet of seven billion humans...or that moving to some other place is going to elevate your social status and make you the main character in some grand epic tale of adventure that will be told the world over. If you can shed yourself of your self-important delusions, then you can achieve travel Zen and accept that you are a nobody who is accomplishing nothing as you move across the map.
>>2848659Delays and redirects are rare. It costs airlines too much money.
>>2848668Just stay home then bud
>>2848659>>2848668>If I go to some new place, I feel like I'd just do what I am doing now but there.This seriously sounds like a mental illness. You're telling me you go to a whole new place for a limited time, presumably solo, and you just do what you do at home? Sounds like you just don't know how to have fun
>>2849006Why did you not answer OPs question? What was the point of your post? Yes I am genuinely interested in knowing
>>2850862What's the point of this thread? Do you go to gardening forums and say "hey guys I hate gardening"
>>2849006>don't know how to have funIt's called being a grown ass adult who doesn't see life in terms of fun and playtime like a child does. >>2851441Some people hold a strong grudge against the world for depriving them of the pure mindless euphoria of childhood play. They refuse to accept that their enjoyment of life as an adult will be blended with discomfort and difficulty (the joy of climbing a steep hill, of eating spicy foreign cuisine, or of taking a long flight to a faraway land).
>>2851480>being a adult means you cant have funyou're kinda lame and ruining the vibescan you just kill yourself?
>>2848659If you go somewhere completely different like Japan or Korea, even just eating out will be an exploration. It's kind of like playing a new game, but full-dive. The only thing preventing me from travelling more is finances. I'm a college student.
>>2848659I think you are just larping some utter lack of travel and funds. I can't imagine going anywhere and having zero interest in things you do NOT do at home. Musuems, culture, arts, geology, nature and animals, even restaurants are different. I also tend to read literature inspired locally. I might read the sagas before going to Iceland so I can see the ancient records of them in Reykholt at Snorristofa (they are pretty like the illuminated manuscripts), or enjoy the funky diorramas at the Settlement Museum in Bogarnes, or at least know Lord of the Rings was inspired there. Maybe you need to catch up on the Vikings first. Cave exploring? Spa soaks? Fine food? Seriously, do you even know how to travel?
>>2852130Suicidal despair is for you endorphin junkies who find yourself deprived of your fix once you pass a certain age.
>>2848659You need to force yourself to be extraverted, I'm an introvert loser at home but when traveling I'm so excited I ask random people what I should check out and become more extraverted.I'm slowly becoming more extraverted at home as a side effect which is nice.
>>2848659I don't like travelling all that much either but I love Japan so going there is my only reason to do so. I would say unless you find somewhere that resonates with you deeply that travelling aimlessly is largely a waste of time. I especially don't understand people who visit third world places like India but maybe they are masochistic and enjoy food poisoning and being surrounded by garbage.>I have met many women who seem to be travel addictsThey do it solely for clout. I have read many stories on here and other places that they sysematically go to trendy or popular places to take selfies or take pictures of their food. People who make travelling their personality are largely devoid of any personality.
