“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”- quote left by Mireille (from Holland) in Bali.
I met Mireille in a hostel in Bali and as we went for lunch one day she let me in on what she really wanted to study - which was the science of happiness. Her next stop in Thailand was going to offer courses at the mahidol university on exactly that. But more than a university, Thailand is also a place packed with travellers. She concluded that day that maybe travelling was for her the best way to understand what happiness was for others ; as the pursuit of happiness happens in many forms, no traveller ever went out in the world to seek unhappiness. He goes out in the world to find a sharper definition of what it means to him, and how to obtain it. And maybe in the end this is why our connections with fellow travellers are always much more meaningful than in our "other" lives – because as we all seek to go after what makes us happy – it changes us and makes us connect deeper with people who are looking for the same…So sometimes I wonder - why only limit ourselves to seeking happiness in travel – if we could be doing it back home – if that is in the end what makes us connect deeper as humans…?
I met Mireille in a hostel in Bali and as we went for lunch one day she let me in on what she really wanted to study - which was the science of happiness. Her next stop in Thailand was going to offer courses at the mahidol university on exactly that. But more than a university, Thailand is also a place packed with travellers. She concluded that day that maybe travelling was for her the best way to understand what happiness was for others ; as the pursuit of happiness happens in many forms, no traveller ever went out in the world to seek unhappiness. He goes out in the world to find a sharper definition of what it means to him, and how to obtain it. And maybe in the end this is why our connections with fellow travellers are always much more meaningful than in our "other" lives – because as we all seek to go after what makes us happy – it changes us and makes us connect deeper with people who are looking for the same…So sometimes I wonder - why only limit ourselves to seeking happiness in travel – if we could be doing it back home – if that is in the end what makes us connect deeper as humans…?
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