Travel is a privilege
The "quit your job to travel the world" Cheerleader, which so often happens on travel sites (for many of us, our inability travel also this), we often forget that it is for everyone not so easy.
years on the road showed me that part is a question of attitude problem (as we travel is expensive, we do not look for ways to make it cheaper) and part of an expenditure issue (we spend money on things to make, we do not need).
There are those for whom any rethinking spending cuts, or budget tips they will help travel -. those who are too sick parents or children to care for, faced large debt, or three jobs to make work only rent
After all, 2.8 billion people - nearly 40% of the world population - live on less than a day $ 2 USD! are in my country, the United States, 14% of the population below the poverty line, 46 million people on food stamps, two jobs work many of them have to get through, and we have one trillion US dollars debt Student pull people down.
can do nothing any website magically travel a reality for those people will say.
Those of us travel a few you are privileged.
Whether we finish our work, to travel the world, spend two months in Europe, or take our children on a short vacation at Disney World, we get something to do, most people in the world, will never get a chance to experience.
About see that too much. When I started, the construction FLYTE - to help a foundation schools take economically disadvantaged students on educational trips abroad. - I thought a lot about privilege
I grew up in a predominantly white middle-class city up with parents who paid for my tuition. I had a job after college that will allow me to live me free, take a vacation, and still save around the world for my first trip. And because I speak English, I found easy to work in English teaching Thailand, where I was able to save expand on my travels.
This is not to say that hard work does not count, but hard work does not exist in a bubble - the circumstances that create to take the opportunities for the hard work fruits are often more important
I have people of all ages, incomes, met skills and nationalities on. Road. People like Don and Alison, who are the world in 70 backpacking; Michael worked, the 60-hour week at a minimum wage job; Cory, who travels the world in a wheelchair; Ishwinder that does not stop visa restrictions to allow him; , And countless other
But even they had conditions that allowed them to travel - the support of family and friends, jobs that allowed for overtime or other skills. They were barely not get through or on social assistance. They did not ask if they could afford their next meal.
So it is important to remember that we are some of the lucky ones. We get to do something that can never do another.
We are privileged.
Even if you have hitchhiked no money around the world, worked abroad, reduce costs to travel around the world on $ 10 per day or travel hacked your way to a first-class ticket, you have the opportunity to do something that most people only go to sleep to dream. You have the freedom and choice about the world in a way that most people do not move.
This is a form of privilege is .
It is important that we never forget or ungrateful for our opportunity.
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