Colombian Expectation vs Reality: Traveling
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“What a wonderful world” — Louis Armstrong
It is not a secret for anybody that traveling around Europe is SO easy!
The time I can spend traveling half Colombia is basically the same as stopping in three countries in Europe!
But traveling is more than just some time spent in an airplane. When I arrive in a new place I try to forget for a moment about the touristic plan and focus in the environment around me.
Sometimes I get the chance to interact with nice people from the area and give my self the opportunity to share thoughts and world views.
When you travel and come back home the way you see yourself and the people around you will change.
And this change would be even more dramatic if you let the place you visit teach you something new.
Pretend that you know nothing. Let this new place play with your values and priorities. Let the perception of this place create something different inside your mind, modify your definition of who you are and what home means.
When you accept and expand your mind and your heart into these new ideas it is easier to understand others and maybe let your foreign friends get closer to your heart. So close you would wonder where were they all your life!
I wish that every single person had the chance, not only to travel but to live abroad.
Exchange a position of comfort for one of vulnerability and understand others from their own experience of being foreign, of being questioned, of being in doubt.
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