Travel, for what?
Travel, for what?
For many of us, travel means go, get out of everyday life and to go away from home ...
At first glance, it's quite simple. And yet ... the impact of any journey undertaken is enormous, but who takes the trouble to analyze and exploit them of course! ...
Leaving, why?
There always comes a time when her daily routine is usually just too ordinary and thus manifests the desire or the need for "a bit of traveling in his life."
We feel the strong need to change air, to see the world ...
It is true that everyone's expectations are many and varied: rest, relaxation, discovery, openness, love of learning, meeting others etc.
Alas, today also we have in this area "consumers" travel. We try to make it up, store destinations, accumulating names of countries visited and we do not always take the time to examine the impact that travel can produce in us.
It is thought a trip but in reality it is the journey that makes us or defeated. He builds us, deconstructed, we change, it opens us to new horizons.
It is also for this reason, that God in the Qur'an enjoins us several times to explore His Earth, its vastness, the great open book ...
Notably through a verse, full of meaning, which is in Surat Pilgrimage, and it is perhaps no coincidence that this verse is found in this chapter, when we know how the visit these holy places often leave an indelible mark on the heart and mind ...
"Do they not roam the earth in order to have hearts with which they reason, or ears with which they hear? For it is not the eyes that grow blind, but blind are the hearts which are in their breasts "(Quran 22/46).
Through this rhetorical question, it does in fact include the countless benefits that travel can produce in us.
The journey is a rich and complex experience. Sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, all our senses are in turmoil, they unite so that we understand and that we place ourselves in control of this vast and rich earth sign of the Creator ...
Openness, the encounter with the Other, the different places discovery, exploring the vastness of creation .. are the same, and the list is far from exhaustive, the benefits brought by trip.
Here, which particularly concerns me is the encounter with the Other but mostly understand how this encounter with the other influences the self-discovery.
The Other self
That may be a commonplace to assert that the encounter with the Other is primarily an encounter with oneself. Indeed, it is as if, parallel to the outer journey took place more intimate journey, deeper .: a journey into the inner self.
Yes but how does it operate?
Intercultural encounter will happen will inevitably stir, question, shake the world of representations of the traveler.
He sees other ways of doing things, to speak, to eat, basically another way of living and take, so aware of the differences but also similarities.
Of course, this is not always simple. Sometimes you have to force yourself to find some food for the less strange, other customs, other practices which are designated under the concept of culture.
This introduction to diversity, difference, otherness will naturally come to question our traveler and push to admit, in his heart he is different, other than the other ...
Discover other means recognizing the otherness in itself and in the words of the philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin, "It's because the subject is otherness in himself that he can communicate with others."
Especially the discovery of oneself
The trip has this great ability to afford somewhere a metamorphosis to the traveler. Indeed, a traveler would return travel being morally, mentally, internally the same as it was before leaving will undeniably missed his journey.
The trip is part of a personal quest of self-discovery, as the poet said: "The trip means a departure from me, an infinite distance and infinite happened to me."
Somehow, the trip allows the transformation of the self in three stages, before / during / after.
Before the trip, we are preparing to leave, the discovery of an elsewhere.
During the journey becomes a concrete rather than imagined experience. Self-transformation works gradually. Prejudices and misunderstandings are strained. For example, exoticism attributed to the Other gradually disappears, becoming a reverse exoticism, one is oneself the exotic.
The strangeness is no longer in the Other but in itself. An identity redesign is necessary because a new identity begins to emerge ...
After that, it's back, a new beginning, a new journey. We changed and the return can be difficult and sometimes painful. Return is a strange feeling with a thousand facets.
Thus, the trip can not be reduced to a movement in space and time. Rather, it is the manifestation of the discovery of a broader, more universal and more personal self-knowledge.
"The shortest path to oneself, takes you around the world"
The trip is a school of life. We do travel, especially not to travel, otherwise wandering ...
Travel, for what? For (e) change ...
Travel, for what?
For many of us, travel means go, get out of everyday life and to go away from home ...
At first glance, it's quite simple. And yet ... the impact of any journey undertaken is enormous, but who takes the trouble to analyze and exploit them of course! ...
Leaving, why?
There always comes a time when her daily routine is usually just too ordinary and thus manifests the desire or the need for "a bit of traveling in his life."
We feel the strong need to change air, to see the world ...
It is true that everyone's expectations are many and varied: rest, relaxation, discovery, openness, love of learning, meeting others etc.
Alas, today also we have in this area "consumers" travel. We try to make it up, store destinations, accumulating names of countries visited and we do not always take the time to examine the impact that travel can produce in us.
It is thought a trip but in reality it is the journey that makes us or defeated. He builds us, deconstructed, we change, it opens us to new horizons.
It is also for this reason, that God in the Qur'an enjoins us several times to explore His Earth, its vastness, the great open book ...
Notably through a verse, full of meaning, which is in Surat Pilgrimage, and it is perhaps no coincidence that this verse is found in this chapter, when we know how the visit these holy places often leave an indelible mark on the heart and mind ...
"Do they not roam the earth in order to have hearts with which they reason, or ears with which they hear? For it is not the eyes that grow blind, but blind are the hearts which are in their breasts "(Quran 22/46).
Through this rhetorical question, it does in fact include the countless benefits that travel can produce in us.
The journey is a rich and complex experience. Sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, all our senses are in turmoil, they unite so that we understand and that we place ourselves in control of this vast and rich earth sign of the Creator ...
Openness, the encounter with the Other, the different places discovery, exploring the vastness of creation .. are the same, and the list is far from exhaustive, the benefits brought by trip.
Here, which particularly concerns me is the encounter with the Other but mostly understand how this encounter with the other influences the self-discovery.
The Other self
That may be a commonplace to assert that the encounter with the Other is primarily an encounter with oneself. Indeed, it is as if, parallel to the outer journey took place more intimate journey, deeper .: a journey into the inner self.
Yes but how does it operate?
Intercultural encounter will happen will inevitably stir, question, shake the world of representations of the traveler.
He sees other ways of doing things, to speak, to eat, basically another way of living and take, so aware of the differences but also similarities.
Of course, this is not always simple. Sometimes you have to force yourself to find some food for the less strange, other customs, other practices which are designated under the concept of culture.
This introduction to diversity, difference, otherness will naturally come to question our traveler and push to admit, in his heart he is different, other than the other ...
Discover other means recognizing the otherness in itself and in the words of the philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin, "It's because the subject is otherness in himself that he can communicate with others."
Especially the discovery of oneself
The trip has this great ability to afford somewhere a metamorphosis to the traveler. Indeed, a traveler would return travel being morally, mentally, internally the same as it was before leaving will undeniably missed his journey.
The trip is part of a personal quest of self-discovery, as the poet said: "The trip means a departure from me, an infinite distance and infinite happened to me."
Somehow, the trip allows the transformation of the self in three stages, before / during / after.
Before the trip, we are preparing to leave, the discovery of an elsewhere.
During the journey becomes a concrete rather than imagined experience. Self-transformation works gradually. Prejudices and misunderstandings are strained. For example, exoticism attributed to the Other gradually disappears, becoming a reverse exoticism, one is oneself the exotic.
The strangeness is no longer in the Other but in itself. An identity redesign is necessary because a new identity begins to emerge ...
After that, it's back, a new beginning, a new journey. We changed and the return can be difficult and sometimes painful. Return is a strange feeling with a thousand facets.
Thus, the trip can not be reduced to a movement in space and time. Rather, it is the manifestation of the discovery of a broader, more universal and more personal self-knowledge.
"The shortest path to oneself, takes you around the world"
The trip is a school of life. We do travel, especially not to travel, otherwise wandering ...
Travel, for what? For (e) change ...
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