Have you thought about how much reality changes when you travel?
Everything becomes freer. Old patterns are broken; an awareness in you need to step up and see things in a new light. Your old tracks can´t hold you anymore as you walk out into a bigger world.
Everything becomes freer. Old patterns are broken; an awareness in you need to step up and see things in a new light. Your old tracks can´t hold you anymore as you walk out into a bigger world.
I´m sitting at an airport writing this. Waiting for the right gate to come, sipping a latte, looking at people, watching the planes get thrown up into the skies or slide down to the ground again. First they land. You see them vanish around the corners of the buildings. Then they come rolling, one after one, with logos from the entire world painted on their bodies: SAS, Lufthansa, Air France, Easyjet, Thai Airlines, Emirates. National characteristics out for a spin.
Since Internet the entire world has changed. It sounds a bit obvious, but if you sit down and think about it for a few minutes (like while waiting for your gate to light up) you realize how big it is. First the radio, then the TV, then the Web; for each step, everything was tied closer.
Despite all the bad sides they hold, they also hold a globalization that changes things to the better – it is so much more difficult to ignore people if you´re used to mailing someone in the same country. It is a lot harder to start a war if you´re used to reading a blog by someone from the opposite side. It is much easier to spread positive change over the Web, because the Web cannot be limited. Even the dictatorships that try, never completely succeed.
And everything is so new. Imagine the positive spread-effect it can give over the next fifty years.
Of course, there are downsides with the Web too, just as with TV and video. Hang on, I´ll just have some coffee – there. Now I´m good to go. A flight-crew just walked by, finally on solid ground again. Maybe they´re sleeping here for the night, or just turning over.
What do you see yourself, with your travel-eyes?? Can you use it as a chance to open yourself and increase your learning? Can you use it to deepen your insight into what it means to be a human being who isn´t you?
What do you see yourself, with your travel-eyes?? Can you use it as a chance to open yourself and increase your learning? Can you use it to deepen your insight into what it means to be a human being who isn´t you?
Damn. The latte is finished. Need to go get a new one. Am just going to finish this, so that you don´t have to hang around here by the table waiting for me, hanging in the air in the middle of one of my sentences.
People discuss the numbers, but by 2007 there seems to have been about 30 billion pages on the Web. The gods alone know how many there are today.
And here in the airport café I can look around among all the travellers and see living sites walking around, completely absorbed in their internal life and the connections their modems are making with other websites.
And here in the airport café I can look around among all the travellers and see living sites walking around, completely absorbed in their internal life and the connections their modems are making with other websites.
Can you ride the wave of how your senses open up when you travel? The journey doesn´t have to be long. It can be going to the next town as well as going to Tierra del Fuego. It can be going to your job on a Sunday, just to see the route with more colour and life. It can be going down a street you´ve never strolled down before, going into a different room at your place of work, a room you walk by every day but never have opened the door to.
The world opens up when you travel. We need more travellers.
Daniel Skyle © 2010
