An exposure to what is unfamiliar makes us know who are: the more we lose ourselves, the more we discover ourselves. Travelling sets us up for that realization. We step away from our comfort zones to the wideness of the world, and to the true bounties of discovering the secrets of life in the universe.
This was a golden nugget that got laid as I read Jennifer Egan's "Why China?" in her collection of short stories, Emerald City. I paraphrased some of the sentences I liked. While the story induced it, the thought it is entirely mine. Reading does that to you. It challenges you to either figure out or build your own metaphor, write your stories, transcend what fascinated you in fiction to polish your persepctives, maybe even change your outlook, and entertainingly so.
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