“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.” – Walter Lippman

It’s so easy to become complacent within our own social system, culture, family and friends. But when transplanted by travel, however briefly we exist among The Others, it requires of us the need to reflect, ponder, compare and wonder.

Being in a new part of the world challenges everything I think I know about human nature, morality and social mores.

Travel throws all my preconceived notion of how things-should-be  into a metaphorical fan the size of infinty, flips it, frappes the heck out of it and throws the scattered remains at my feet.

“There,” says the World. “Whaddya think of that?!”

That, for me, is the beauty of travel.

Though I am a big proponent for getting out and about in the world, I also believe that you can achieve this same effect without leaving your home.  It’s definitely harder to pull off but it is achievable.

It starts and ends with that old hippie adage that has stood the test of time:  Question Everything.