Current Considerations

Traveling helps us see how things can be different, it helps us face the unknown, and be more comfortable with it. When we return, our perspective is re-adjusted, and we’re able to restart, changed.

In order to be the best version of yourself, and so you can be of service to your loved ones and to your neighbor, sometimes you need something to look forward to, and sometimes you need a little break, so you can return to where you are most needed refreshed and recharged, ready to face any upcoming challenges.

Uncertainty and fear can make us freeze: they can stop us in our tracks, blinded by the headlines, and make us hide away, covering our eyes, ears, and mouths. But we mustn’t let them, we must keep moving. When everything around us seems to be crumbling apart, keeping our hope and knowing that there’s a brighter future on the other side can be a great act of strength.

Traveling can be an act of strength as well. In addition to giving us some respite, it can help us see how things can be different, it can help us face the unknown, and become more comfortable with it. When we return home, our perspective is re-adjusted, and we’re able to reconsider and to start again, changed and anew.

Because of all of the above, if you can, I encourage you to keep going, to keep being curious and open, to have empathy for a stranger, and to be inspired by them. Keep traveling, whatever that may mean for you: a little day trip, a quick getaway, a long trip overseas. And while you’re away, remember to talk to people, to ask them questions, to listen to their point of view without judgement, and to share yours. If you can sit down with them and spend time breaking bread, even better.

Sitting face to face, level, sharing a meal like at home, can turn any stranger into family, into community, into unity.

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