8.21.2006

No Interest to Travel

I know it makes me a bad privledged upper-middle classer and a bad Grinnell kid but besides all that is it weird that I have almost no interest in traveling anywhere in the world? I mean, why the fuck would I want to hire a seat in a plane to fly me halfway around the earth? Fly over all that water and shit. Humans don't fly, they walk. Maybe it is because this country is strange enough for me that I have no interest in trying another country that will be just as weird but I won't understand what they say. I read all these plans about people going to every place in the world I could imagine, but I just don't really see the attraction. Frankly, it sounds hard and expensive and alot of work just to come back again in a week/month/year. It's not like I've never been anywhere either. I've been lots of places, and yeah they are all different, but I mean its just somewhere else. "Exotic", "culture", "unique", etc don't really describe anything, because wherever you could go in the world somebody else has probably lived their entire life there and would like to leave as much as you would like to go there. I think it might have something to do with the fact that people never look at the ground or the sky when they walk, or even where they are going alot of the time. I think if it came down to it I wouldn't mind having a house and spending the rest of my life exploring every inch of ground, building, and sky between there and the nearest park. How many of you have been all those places, huh? I'll send you a fucking postcard.

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