Travel and Self-Development

Travel is a fantastic self-development tool, because it extricates you from the values of your culture. It shows you that another society can live with entirely different values and still function and not hate themselves. To truly appreciate something, you must confine yourself to it. The act of choosing a value for yourself requires rejecting alternative values. If nothing is better or more desirable than anything else, then we are empty and our life is meaningless. We are without values and therefore live our life without any purpose. Rejection makes your life better; avoiding rejection gives us short-term pleasure by making us rudless and directionless in the long term. That rejection is an inherent part of maintaining our