Opinion
Travel doesn't broaden the mind so much as reveal our deeper natures
Travelling would be far more fun without all that baggage
26 May 2019 - 00:01
Travel broadens the mind. This is such generally accepted wisdom that it borders on fact. Ask your grandmother or Instagram captionists about the benefits of travel. Hell, even Mark Twain waxed lyrical about how seeing the world was fatal to one's various -isms. To an extent, they are all correct. Seeing different people in different parts of the world living different lives is all types of eye-opening - or, at the very least, it stirs something in the soul...
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