Journal Assignment 2: Travel, the thing obsessed me.

   I would like to talk about something that I obsessed with like movie, music, travel, but if you want me to tell you, I think travel is the best because stories happen when travelling. There is an old saying in China: Read 10 thousand of books is not a patch on walk 10 thousand miles. And I hold approval opinion with it because I’ve been traveled a lot of place in China and I found that the things that I get are more valuable than the things I learned in school.

   However, I read an article several years ago that rebuilt my world view and enlighten my spirit. It said that sometimes travel is not as vital as we think because if you just arrived some place and unable to get insight into the precious culture that they have, the trip would be just a trip, but not the valuable experience. Furthermore, if you haven’t enough knowledge, you won’t understand the emotion that the place you stand gives you.

    It influenced me a lot so I decided to change my mind, for example, I should read more books before my trip and stay longer in a place that I really like, instead of gain a superficial understanding through cursory observation. After that, travel became a holy thing in my life, I thought I should treat every trip seriously because maybe it will be the only chance I visited here.

    Although I am in American now, travel is still obsessed me and I found maybe it’s time to make my destination higher, not only China but also other part of world. That’s the thing I want to talk about.