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Showerthought: A local's slow pace in Sicily flipped my idea of a good trip
I rushed everywhere trying to see it all. Now I know sitting for hours with an espresso watching people pass is what travel should be.
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ruby_jones7mo ago
Johnb49 has a point about swapping extremes. Oscarj15 is right that we do this with work too, but maybe it's not some huge life lesson. Sometimes you want to see the museum, other days you just want the cafe. It's just picking what you feel like, not finding the one true way to travel.
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johnb497mo ago
Sounds like you just swapped one extreme for another. Sitting for hours with coffee is nice but so is actually seeing stuff, you know. Maybe the real trick is not turning travel into some big spiritual quest either way. Both rushing and sitting still can be good depending on the day and what you feel like doing. It really does not need to be that deep.
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oscarj157mo ago
Ever notice how we do this with everything, not just travel? Like we'll work nonstop for weeks then crash into a weekend of doing nothing at all. We treat free time like it has to be either super productive or totally empty, no in-between. Your trip story just shows that same switch from checking boxes to just being there.
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