Why Places Are Better Than People
Why are places sometimes better than people?
You will understand when you travel more.
Not with people.
To places.
People come with expectations. Places don’t.
People ask who you are, what you do, what you believe, where you belong. Places ask nothing. They simply allow you to arrive.
A mountain does not care about your success.
The sea does not remember your failures.
An old temple does not ask what religion you belong to.
A forest does not care about your status.
A road does not demand that you explain where you are going.
The more you travel, the more you discover that some places don’t merely show you the world.
They show you yourself.
And perhaps that is why, after travelling enough, you begin to travel less with people and more with places.
Because people often want to know you.
Places simply let you be.