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>What has it done to change your perspective?
People are the same everywhere you go. I guess it shows you how things could be though. In that respect it's like the other poster said, it makes me feel fortunate to be American and renewed a sense of patriotism in me. You see people who go on babies first couple of trips and they return with the zomg grass is sooo much greener elsewhere attitude, but the more you travel the more you realize two weeks in a tame country doesn't really give you a perspective into a places problems.
>Do you feel like you belong more to the world?
No. If anything it showed me I am more insignificant because there's billions more people like me just eating, drinking, cummin, and existing.
>Do you think higher/lesser of people you meet?
It showed me how much I hate Israelis and American women who travel.
>Has it helped you find meaning?
To an extent. It showed me that being the perpetual traveling guy isn't a healthy path to go on and it becomes pathetic in your 30's to be a neet who just solo travels. Now I'm actively getting better and using my GI Bill to work towards getting a big boy career. I know a guy my age who is the only other person from my small town who also spent his late 20's just traveling when not fighting forest fires. He lies to women he meets overseas saying he is a 'remote fire consultant' or a 'firefighter in LA' when in reality forest fire fighting is peak neetdom He constantly runs out of money and has to beg his mom in his 30's to send him some so he can get home. I didn't want to be associated with that level anymore (despite never needing to go crawling to my folks for cash). Imo perpetual trvlers and remote workers are insufferable. I remember meeting an American remote worker who when I asked where he was from he said "I'm from nowhere." That was the moment where I realized how fucking cringe the #vagabond lifestyle is.

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Super travelers of /trv/ (those who spend around half or more of the year travelling), what has it done to change your perspective? Do you feel like…