Self Reliance

"Traveling is a fool's paradise"

What this basically means, is that trying to escape your problems is stupid. Running away from your issues, and troubles, does not make them go away. If anything, it makes them get worse.... the problems don't just solve them self, and they grow and grow and grow.... Relating this to traveling, when we go out on vacations aka "traveling", we drop everything we were doing at the time, and simply leave. We go out to see the world, or whatever it is people would do. We enjoy the temporary relief, the sudden joy that relieves the stress of all your troubles. Of course this is always great, forgetting what is going wrong in your life, and just living in the moment ( i enjoy it myself) but it really does not help at all. It provides a temporary comfort that will most likely just make the very same problem we were escaping grow and grow. This escape even sounds foolish, in search of relief from our problems you run away from them, allowing them to get even worse so that when you come back shortly, you are faced with even larger problems.... so you didn't just waste time, you screwed yourself over even more.... seems pretty foolish to me.... Traveling seems to be more of a problem than the problems...So if we know this problem (traveling) exists, why don't we try to fix it? Because we are avoiding it as well.... we travel to avoid the problem at hand (which is traveling) it seems we've reached an impasse... This conundrum is a tough one, and as it seems, will never be solved.... because we as human beings are obsessed with the now..... we think, act, and live in the now... because now is what we care about. Now is what we feel. Now is .... now. Life is simply a series of nows.... of moments.... each moment allows either pleasure or pain, and we try to maxamize this pleasure of the now.... this is what traveling does, created a momemt of bliss that people value immensly