A SUPERIOR FORM OF LEARNING
We get our experiences from various sources. To some learning dawns upon in closed classrooms while others prefer to go out there and see to learn. Some people go to Rome and take cooking classes others study art in Paris. Some spend their entire lives chasing wildlife across borders. With plenty of first hand learning opportunities that traveling lays down for us it is impossible to undermine its importance.
Of course one need to go through the basic educational process however if you want to learn how things are done properly experiencing it through all the fine senses is a joy compared to none.
If you want to observe the rituals of serving tea in Japan what better teacher than an old woman on the streets of Tokyo who has is the protector and preacher of her nations heritage.
Traveling across nations with relief agencies is another form of enlightenment for the soul as one could never do enough for our brethren in need and true empathy can only find places in our hearts of we live the life that we say is unsatisfactory.
There are arguments that perhaps smoking a joint in Nepal isn't really required for one to know the harm it could cause and these are valid.
Like all other circumstances traveling to seek something positive and traveling to contaminate your soul are separate things and there are always good and bad incentives when people take up any venture.
The various travelogues that have been written over centuries have helped the human civilization to embrace the diversity that exists instead of questioning and categorizing different as bad.
It has only been possible through this that man has opened his eyes to the sight of God and to the delight of the mixed breed that we are all irreplaceable part of.
Recreation mixed with education is perhaps the most sustained form of learning and the incentive that each day is new keeps people going for a lifetime.
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