The Places

We spend most of our lives looking for a place to belong to—a city, a country, a job position, next to a loved one—and the rest of it protecting it or trying to get it back.

Every human is one day forced to ask himself this fatidic question: where do I belong? 

This is one of the main forces driving individuals to move around. This is how our species evolved to what it is today, and why we feel the desire to travel.

Travel is one of the many possible manifestations of this primal force.

Achilles traveled to Troy to meet his fate. Odysseus traveled back to Ithaca where he belonged. Oedipus ran away and met tragedy.

Travel is not mere escapism, it is perhaps precisely the contrary: we travel, not to run away, but to find answers.

Another question is whether we should learn to belong anywhere and everywhere at the same time or stick to a select few tribes. Each path pushed to the extreme is unsustainable (lack of stability with the former and dogmatism for the latter), so the answer might be to develop the flexibility to do a bit of both.