As Weiner describes it, it’s a “snapshot, capturing a particular place at a particular time.” Although he must generalize each place, he does so in a way that allows you to formulate your own opinions and pull your own insights from each culture into your own life, regardless of where you’re geographically located. Eric Weiner travels across the globe, to ten different countries, seeking to describe happiness. It’s the core reason that travel keeps drawing me back in and why it’s become a fundamental root in my life.
Adrift in a different place we give ourselves permission to be different people.” Travel as a Source for Self-Discovery It’s not that distant lands contain some special “energy” or their inhabitants possess secret knowledge (though they may) but rather something more fundamental: by relocating ourselves, reorienting ourselves, we shake loose the shackles of expectation. Change your location and you may just change yourself. I believe, now more than ever, in the transformative promise of geography. “Perhaps, if that is where your heart lies, but the point is not necessarily that we move to those places but, rather, that we allow those places to move us.
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