Travel Is Bullshit

Posted on October 7, 2016 by Grant Cherwenuk

I’ll admit it, I used a shocking title to get your attention. I don’t really think that travel is bullshit but, there are many bullshit moments between all the amazing experiences. I could make this comment about anything, six pack abs, CEO’s, entrepreneurship, athletes. We live in a culture that idolizes the finished product, we’ve lost sight of the bullshit that person has and continues to go through in order to get to that point. The worst part is putting in the hard work might not matter. People will point to the success stories and say it was luck, they’re right. For every Arnold Schwarzenegger, there’s a roided out Belgian guy, going into kidney failure from all the supplements, he’s just been told by the 300th casting agent he’ll never get an acting job because his English sounds like Trump with a mouthful of marbles. We do a terrible job these days of remembering that your life is probably going to be very average, that you aren’t a special little snowflake. Thanks to Instagram and Facebook it appears that everyone is living amazing lives, most people don’t post when they go to work come home and take out the garbage. As a consequence average is no longer average, it’s shit, if you aren’t driving a lambo while banging a bunch of Instagram models, you don’t cut it. What do you do when you’re likely going to live an average life but being average is no longer acceptable? My choice to travel for an extended period of time has made one thing very clear, if you find your bullshit then an average life isn’t so bad.

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Read the rest of Grant’s blog at http://www.losethekeys.com/2016/10/07/travel-is-bullshit/