Venus, what you are describing about your travels and cheezy hotels and all the other things you mention. What if that was taught to be the "IN, ACCEPTED, COOL WAY TO TRAVEL AND LEARN?" The way you have describe it was more of a tramatic or even loathsome way to travel and learn and see the world around you. What is your own PERCEPTION of this experience?

I was being sarcastic. But in a way it is not rational. Why be uncomfortable in pursuit of adventures that can be potentionally dangerous?

My perception? It is a life style... lowbudget is a whole philosophy. I guess I am seeking adventure, running away a bit... I want to feel alive. I feel like that on the road.

I think that a better way of looking at it is that you were incredibly resourseful and you did do it, dam girl, good for you. Those others that have depression as a fad, I don't think they could do that do you? You are the better, but for some reason, you do not see that. So in effect you feel deprived in your learning, that should not be the case. What you did was venture and learn, you did not deprive yourself, your only percieving that, unknowingly, learned behavior. You have an anger for this, should not be there, you should be rewarding yourself, not with anger but with the fact that you did it, you were resourseful.

I don't feel deprived or ansty... again, I was being sarcastic...

but when you look at it... objectivelly... does my behavior make sense? Does the whole tourism industry make sense (I said this as *expert* as tourism is a thing I have licenced and educated in). Besides desire to learn and humans being bit of adrenaline junkies... can this be explained by science - which as pachy claimed - explains things philosophy does not?

Isn't desire to roam the planet a socially accepted form of madness? People go travel the world when disappointed in life or when on crossroads...


When Venus mentions that group that felt depression was something that was cool, a fad, acceptable excuse to refrain from actively persuing life. Perhaps that was learned too. Maybe by parents, maybe by others, society

They could be "depressed" as fad,because they could afford it and the society is in such place where it is accepted.



sorry if I ran off topic. I guess there is a label for it.. I can't just be random, can I?