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"People travel to change themselves, but they only manage to change the scenery." (Not my quote, alas, and my memory has butchered it enough that I can't find the original.)

>>resolu+(OP)
Except that traveling is already requiring change in a person, opposed to being stationary. You have to face new situations all the time - requiring a different state of alertness and consciousness.

And new sceneries have different people, climate etc. also literally changing people (microbiome for example).

So yes, some people travel to run away from problems they never dare to solve, but some people just like to be on the move, like our nomadic ancestors.

>>hutzli+8C
Nomadic ancestors traveled with their (extended) tribes.

Very different from people who are straining or destroying their relationships to go have some croissants in Paris or whatever.

>>llamai+zH
Yes, this is very true. But there are new nomadic tribes forming right now.

Some actually very close bonded and always together like in the original tribal meaning, some very loose and casual. Just like minded people, who like to be on the move, but not alone.

>>resolu+(OP)
Encountering a foreign culture, with foreign ways of thinking and behaving, can stretch and change you by forcing you to encounter assumptions and habits you didn't even know you had.