Do you ever wake up feeling groggy, struggling to drag yourself out of bed? Or maybe the moment your eyes open, it feels like chaos, where your mind already racing with everything you have to do?
Now be honest, which do you reach for first in the morning – your curtains or your phone?
Rick Steves believes that travel can make the world a better place, and make us better people – and I agree.
Travel has a way of grounding us in reality. It forces us to step outside our day-to-day routines and into the raw, unfiltered world.
We protect what is ours: MY land, my house, my family, my country, my culture. But when it comes to nature our perspective is external: THE planet, the forest, the ocean, the air, the trees.
This mindset is the crux of our problem. We’ve distanced ourselves from the very thing that sustains us. We protect what we consider “mine” but treat the Earth as something separate, something external, something that’s not our responsibility.