The allure of travel has always been that over there, things will be better. We will have more fun; be more fun. We get to drop the burdens we carry when we travel, enamored with new places, shedding our old stories and trying on new versions of ourselves.

This works in large part for vacations - those one or two week sprints where you take off from your 'real' life to explore somewhere new. It's like the first flush of new love, where everything is golden and you are the best version of yourself.

But when you have made traveling your 'real' life, then the 'real' you eventually catches up with you.

And you get to see - so clearly - all the stories you carry about who you are, the identities you take on, the hurts you still hold, the self doubts that get in your way.

It's the same with success. We think - if I get that book published, that film made, that music released - I will be happy. A bright shiny new version of myself. But wherever you go, there you are. Even in travel, even in success. 



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