Back To Reality or Was Reality What I Just Left?
Something about traveling changes a person. This is especially true when the traveling reaches beyond the boundaries of our own lands. I think if one were to get mathematical about the whole thing the formula might read something like: Familiarity = Comfort Comfort = Complacency Complacency = Ignorance When we journey out of our comfort zone the results can be unpredictable at best. Sometimes we reach a feeling of enlightenment, sometimes we become depressed. Sometimes when we return to our normal state we find that what was once normal has changed. Many of the feelings confronted depend on how far from our comfort zone we journey. Feelings about ourselves and our lives might vary little if we went abroad to Canada yet traveling to South East Asia, Africa or China can result in an enormous re-evaluation of who we are and where we fit into the world around us. A few days ago I returned from a trip to the Far East. It was largely a family trip to the Philippines punctuate