Why Travel is So Addictive
| August 7, 2017
3. The World Becomes Smaller
Have you ever seen someone identify themself as a world citizen? When you visit so many places and cultures, instead of looking at the differences, you tend to look for all the similarities. It’s not “me” and “you” anymore, it’s “us.”
All of a sudden you have this unique feeling of not belonging to your home country, but to the Earth as a whole. And even when you think about a nation that’s far away, your memories are still very real, bridging the distance between you.
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