Holy Sh%t! What an intelligent conversation I stumbled across. I bet you can feel my IQ several dozen points below the two of your's already. But I felt compelled to comment as I've been living out of a backpack for the past 10 years, continuously "budget" traveling around the world. One thing for sure is that you should "dare to say it" Experience is only gained by experience.
That is what has been keeping the fire lit within myself. I love love love to travel! That's all I know. It's given me perspectives on the world that I would never have had. Before I left the US, I was just another ignorant American, now I see how all over the world people are trapped in belief systems that often keep them complacent as well as a host of other negative attributes.
It's interesting being new on here. Steemit has been a real trip of an experience in itself. I find myself being quite useful to the community and I've already done quite a bit of travel consultation so far. It makes me happy to help others. Keep up the good work!
-Dan "World Travel Pro!"
And that is the purpose of experience... Perspective and depth of character.
Character can only be developed by testing said character.
Not wise yet... still plenty to go and lots more pondering to do.
Born and raised in South Africa... you experience a lot of diversity if you want to.
I got in early, it was easy then...
Yip, SA is unfortunately fast becoming the USA of Africa, but that's what wealth and the easy life chasing materialism brings.
Your culture shock series was great by the way, pity it didn't earn more, I loved it, all to easy to identify with these days.
"SA is unfortunately fast becoming the USA of Africa, but that's what wealth and the easy life chasing materialism brings."
Western culture is crumbling before our very eyes and no one seems to see the forest through the trees. I won't win any popularity contests among certain groups when I say that, in my intentionally, very well informed opinion, the reformation is the single event in history that has contributed the most to the decline of the west. The Name above all names has been reduced to the punchline of a bad joke because we who claim to know the truth can't even agree on the meaning of the first three chapters of the first book. The Bible states explicitly that a house divided cannot stand. When Jesus said this, he was talking about us, right now, today. I'm thoroughly convinced of this.