Who is a traveller?

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Travel is an amazing thing – it opens your eyes to the wonders of the world in all its glorious complexity.  Travel teaches you to view the world in a more pragmatic way and to know your small, if not entirely insiginifigant, place in the grand scheme of the human race.

Travellers are not vacationers.  They are not people who take two weeks off work a year to lay on a beach, or travel Contiki-style across 17 countries in 3 days.  

No. Travellers are those stung by wanderlust.

& a  a1 k: D6 K! C! m* B# Y1 \7 yTravellers are the people who never truly go home, even though at times in their life they find themselves in the place they are meant to call ‘home’. They are the people with the sparkle in their eye when they think about all the places they are yet to discover.  They are the ones taking interest in the political, cultural and social events shaping countries never mentioned on the local news.   
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Travellers have a deep need to broaden their knowledge. To learn another language; to understand the history of another culture and to delve deep into the stories that have come together to shape what the world is today.  

# m" w( x1 h& l" d- ]Travellers desire equality for all people.  They know deep in their hearts that all humans should be treated equally regardless of birthplace.  Travellers desire to strip the world of borders and restrictions and to give every person the same opportunity to discover the world as they have done.

Travellers are stripped of the biases placed on them during their childhood. They accept all people as they are.  They wash away the fear of difference and see every person - regardless of race, religion, colour or language - as a potential friend.
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Travellers are lonely souls, but have a network of friendships that can spread across the globe. Travellers understand this trait in others and reach out to strangers to form bonds of shared experience.  Because travellers need those people around them.  They need friendships with people who understand and support their passion for discovery.  They require the acceptance of their chosen lifestyle; which many find impossible to gain from relationships with those left behind at home.

But most of all travellers are nomads.  They are wanderers who deeply understand the value of things.  They do not fear the future.  They do not think of retirement plans and mortgages. They feel burdened by possessions and place the highest value on the things that cannot be measured in monetary terms – relationships and experiences.
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: l4 b5 J6 ^9 d* V2 f" O" Z* RBecause travellers have figured it out. The meaning of life.  They know in their hearts that everything will always work out in the end.  That humans only need a few simple things to live. That memories are priceless, and that wanderlust is achievable.

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原文转自http://www.quora.com/Anita-Cripp ... id=nSLA&share=1