Picture: Let's play "find your baggage" at Delhi airport.
Why do you want to travel (not just go on holiday, mind you)? What makes you think that the trip was worthwhile? I recently read a book called “The Art of Travel” by the modern-day philosopher Alain de Botton in which he exactly tackles those questions. To answer the question he draws upon the 19th century English artist John Ruskin who laid strong focus on interacting with the scenery either through drawing or through writing (“paint with words”). Ruskin urged us to interact with beauty as just briefly glancing over a beautiful scenery does not help to really appreciate its beauty. Actively contemplating beauty, according to Ruskin, allows us to understand why something is beautiful. And probably to your dismay he counted photography as not among the activities that allows us to understand beauty as it is too quickly done. Therefore my fellow travellers, don your pencils, get your crayons ready or start your own blog in order to appreciate the beauty of our home called earth. Go out and gain insights for life (according to Friedrich Nietzsche).
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