Surely you have already experienced this feeling of being so pleasant and accepting the life you feel when you travel, is that when you travel you open your mind, you become more tolerant, you are able to understand your prejudices and leave room to slowly undo them, as your new experiences continue.
Travelling is the most authentic way to know the world, but also to know in depth (and without blindfolding) the prejudices we carry in tow, we automatically believe that the way we understand life, the way we live day to day, is the right way. And when we travel, we discover that others are “foreigners,” and how can we be?
- “What are the strange customs of these strangers?Why do they do this? These are phrases you’ve probably heard around you more than once.
- Or maybe they’re phrases pronounced by yourself.
There is a kind of inclination when interpreting this information from the outside. Ours, what is familiar to us, what we are used to seeing and doing is “normal”. What’s not part of our ways is weird, weird. if there is a line between good and evil. Between the real way of doing and understanding things and the strange and meaningless way to do it.
To better understand it, let’s look at an example. If you are a calm and serene person, think about how you felt in a moment of anger when you lost the ability to self-control, surely you had a strange feeling in your own being and some awkwardness: people who rarely get angry, for lack. practice, I usually don’t know how to be angry.
Well, while what is familiar to us is this state of “calmness and serenity,” explosion, anger, and fury are part of us. Our different shades shape everything you set us up. We cannot deny parts of ourselves that are essential simply because they are not the parts we are used to demonstrating.
Travelling does something similar. We cannot try to understand our environment as a mere product of common sense, and the environment of others as a senseless disaster. Cultural heritage, landscape and social environment create people and their customs.
Our environment has shaped us from a young time, they are experiences, how we relate to people other than us, when we leave our usual environment, travel and try different routines, this reduces the mold imposed on us by genetics. We look outside with eyes of curiosity and without prejudice, we are taking a big step on the path of tolerance.
Believing that our way of understanding life is the only correct and meaningful way of thinking is a very limited way of thinking that is far from enriching us and that will make us even poorer. A poverty of soul. We must think that true wealth comes from the lessons we learn day by day that we live, lessons that make us more open and tolerant.
If we could stop looking at our navel and look beyond, start looking generously and soundly curiously, a look that seems like a great passage to other souls, other spirits, other life forms, I get rid of the prejudices of traveling and looking. to you, stranger, with open arms, with your soul ready to learn.
You’ll filter out experiences, have time to keep building yourself as a person, what you want and what you don’t want in your life, but if you connect to the world with your eyes closed, you won’t be able to. sees anything, just darkness and sometimes darkness buries. If you open your eyes, you will see the light, the light of the opening of life?The light of tolerance.