Wrong DP.
You are talking about conditioned neuroses. They are all different I agree.
Tolstoy said that all happy families are the same and all unhappy ones different from each other.
Mathos wrote-
Quote:Most normal people enjoy travel, a holiday or business travel is usually beneficial to the mind and body alike, it broadens ones horizons and gives credence to universal friendship.
Are you suggesting that only travel can do those things.
"Or again if we but climb the serried mountain peaks . . .
--Peaks, towering high on high, to bathe our souls, as it were . . .
--As 'twere, in the peerless panorama of Ireland's portfolio, unmatched,despite their wellpraised prototypes in other vaunted prize regions, for very beauty, of bosky grove and undulating plain and luscious pastureland of vernal green, steeped in the transcendent transluscent glow of our mild mysterious Irish twilight . . ."
"--The moon, professor MacHugh said. He forgot Hamlet.
--That mantles the vista far and wide till the glowing orb of the moon shines forth to irradiate her silver effulgence."
"--O! Mr Dedalus cried, giving vent to a hopeless groan, shite and onions! That'll do, Ned. Life is too short.
Ulysses--James Joyce.
That's more broadening of the horizons and beneficial to the mind and body than a wash and brush up, pedicure and massage in a Thai back street as far as I'm concerned and I don't have to get off the sofa for it.
There are so many millions travelling that it has no cachet anymore. It's as common as muck. Soon it will have negative cachet.
Look at them all beating their brains out to save up for a romantic week in Paris and Francis can't wait to flee the place. Something odd about that I think.
I never get tired of my books.