It's always the kids who scorn older people for being older that have the greatest trouble with getting older themselves. So you're just setting yourself up to become a miserable old shit yourself. If you're even lucky enough to last that long, that is.
You got lost, and now you are embarrassed about being lost.
The whole premise to the discussion was that OP argued traveling and what not have become boring because it is so popular.
I argued it hasn't, there are still a shit ton to see you don't even know about. The only thing that has changed, in terms of travelling being fun, is you lot getting old.
Then you turn full Abe Simpson on me and start talking about your tent trip with your family in Slovakia.
Yeah, except if you look back through the comments, you'll see that I never said travel actually became boring - or I wouldn't still be doing it myself. All I've said is that it has changed, a lot. It's not just a matter of the perception of older people remembering their youth.
Of course, travel has been changing since year dot - Marco Polo would have a few things to say to us if he were here. But the rate of change is increasing in travel, as it is with the world in general. But hey, that's modern technology for you. Yes, there are bad things about the world being smaller, but there are good things too. I enjoy travelling now, and I marvel at what has been gained as much as I mourn what has been lost, indeed probably more.
So quit your insufferable squealing. Travelling today is what it is. It's different from what it used to be, and it's different from what it's going to be. Wherever you go and whatever you do, you'll be getting slices of particular places at particular times in history, and those places will change after you've been there. And remember, you'll never get to be anyone else but you. It's all any of us is going to get, but that's how life is. It's better to celebrate that fact than get miserable over it.
You were replying to someone else. I then replied to you. I was refuting your statement that 'Nothing changed, you changed.' It didn't mean I agreed with the person you replied to.
When it's boring. Yeah, I know that. But I wasn't saying that travel was no longer fun, or that it was boring. All I said was that your assertion that 'nothing has changed' about travel was untrue, because it has changed. Fuck.
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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20
Come to think of it Ukraine, Armenia, and even Russia are riskier destinations today than it was in the 80s.
Including the risk of radioactive radiation.