Traveling takes work. Lots of moving, planning, packing, flying, driving, unpacking, figuring out a new city, finding the right food, adjusting, sleeping on couches, new environment to get used to, new people to interact with. Your normal routines are basically out the window. You have to create your own little bubble that you operate in. Traveling alone makes it easier to make that bubble. You determine your threshold. The rewards are clear — you get to see amazing places, interesting places, different people and hopefully emerge out of your comfort zone a bit. You are forced to look at your home and current lifestyle from a distance. An actual distance. You become the scientist and your home becomes the peatridish. Traveling allows you to examine your habits and patterns, potentially question them and ultimately learn from them. This helps people evolve. It also adds to your carbon footprint, and in turn ruins the planet. The more you travel, by air specifically, the more you add to the global food shortage and extinction of our species. Airplanes should have bigger windows.