Let's Travel The World!
I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one.
Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to
Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig
some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and
you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your
president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water.
Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what
globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about; I’m
sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And
that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four
buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a
book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of
people—Americans and Europeans—come back and go, ohhhhh. And the light
bulb goes on.
No comments:
Post a Comment