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I really agree with the importance of having gratitude. It's easy to take for granted the miracle of life. Gratitude, as the article explains, can help you appreciate the wealth of experiences and opportunities available where you currently live.

I would add however that in some cases, travel can really enrich your life. You may even, if you have a certain personality and the financial means, find the most meaning in having a life of non stop travel, where your residence is, effectively, the planet Earth.

Travel can also help you discover places where you would prefer living. For example if you live on the West Coast, you may instead prefer jurisdictions with more law and order, where you're not having your personal belonging stolen on a frequent basis, and you're not forced to contend with mentally unstable drug addicts on a daily basis.

If you live in a cold climate, you may find you prefer the opposite, or vice versa.

You may find cities with a better job market, or less burdensome taxes.

You may find a country with a culture that better suits you, e.g. one that is more liberal, or a small town culture that is more friendly and personable.

Travel can add a lot of value to your life.

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Travel is key because, if you do it slowly enough with eyes open, it shows you what universal properties human societies tend to have in all their incarnations and just how beautiful nature, history, art and other things lying outside of the daily grind are. Importantly, particularly if you are young, it distances you from the familiar environment, society, family and friends, and thus releases your inhibitions and allows you to grow in new ways. Done right, travel is novel experience - definitely not endless flights and generic hotels. After your first foreign rendezvous, sunrise, sunset, new way of cooking a familiar ingredient, new instrument, sport, museum, language or revolution, "home" may just seem ... dull.