Are we traveling less than we did before?
By vanny
@vandana7 (100604)
India
November 16, 2015 12:16am CST
Ok...exclude Indians. We believe in rushing to another city if anybody is ill, or is pregnant, or is having a house warming ceremony, or whatever. Even if that person be my father's sister's husband's brother's wife's first cousin's daughter's husband's mother in law's brother's son. You see, it won't look nice if we don't.
I thought with Internet and smartphones, our traveling needs should have come down. But is that what is happening in reality?
Are we traveling more for pleasure now? Or are we having no time for pleasure since life has become extremely fast paced, and competition way too much.
Based on what you were a couple of decades ago, and now can you tell me if you have reduced traveling. I have.
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7 responses
@Rationalwriter (1813)
• Lucknow, India
16 Nov 15
I make sure that I am travelling on a vacation every 3 months!!! It keeps the monotony away!!
Plus it freshens the mind!!
@Rationalwriter (1813)
• Lucknow, India
16 Nov 15
@vandana7 Yeah that I do too!!! Just last month was my best friend's brother's marriage! Went there!!
But yeah except for social functions, the travelling to relatives has come down!!!
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I guess I accept I am abnormal then. 
@hora_fugit (5862)
• India
16 Nov 15
I don't like traveling until I am actually doing it! So one has to nudge me constantly, I will make all excuses and give in grumpily.... after that I start enjoying the travel.
Even if for some function...I would love the long journeys... and when it ends, not going to like the actual function! In any case, I avoid family gatherings, travel or not. 
Oh, I missed it... you mentioned Based on what you were a couple of decades ago, ... errm.. based on that I shouldn't reply. I was a toddler, if not non-existent altogether! 
Oh, I missed it... you mentioned Based on what you were a couple of decades ago, ... errm.. based on that I shouldn't reply. I was a toddler, if not non-existent altogether! 1 person likes this
@hora_fugit (5862)
• India
16 Nov 15
@vandana7 All I did was tag my mother. Once I lost her and went to other lady, pressed against her saree and said,"Mummy, I am hungry!" 
I was so tiny
I was so tiny 
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
16 Nov 15
My travel has been cut down drastically due to my illness and other things. I haven't been out of town since the past two years now, not even for the doctors. Nothing about the pace of life or the smart phone or technology. I loved to travel and if I am healthy again, I will. I have plans to travel and see some snow, some sea and even some of forests.
@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
16 Nov 15
it's that way in my parent's hometown because everyone in related in some way
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@deeshaq (82)
• India
16 Nov 15
im still a student, so i cant exactly say anything, but i love to travel.. i would love to have a job that has max. travelling oppurtunities. so maybe the youth today is more globalised. we believe the world is our family, and not a particular town or city!! :)
