On Travel and Sanity

There’s a lot out there to see in the world. Towering mountain ranges in Switzerland, bioluminescent pools of water in Vietnam and an inordinate amount of quaint towns with idyllic backdrops.

Thanks to air travel, all of these amazing places are available to us with a few button clicks on our phones. It’s truly amazing. However, a lot of humans see travel as an escape rather than an activity meant purely for joy.

We’ll use that mountain in the Swiss Alps as a hideout to get away from a job that we hate or a relationship that is on the verge of collapse. As beautiful as the environment is on the outside, it won’t change the inside of you. A troubled mind is a troubled mind and you can never truly escape yourself.

Instead, use that mountain trip as an opportunity to work on yourself. Look out at the snow covered peaks and see how truly futile one bad relationship is in the grand scheme of existence. Work through how you can become a better person, start working on a habit you said you’d start months ago or do some creative writing.

If you have a life worth escaping from, fix it.