People

People -

One of my favorite parts about traveling is meeting here and there, the ability to produce a wide range of people to meet. In hostels, on trips, in buses, sitting in cafes or bars, on the street, it is easy to make new friends. So simple that sometimes, you feel Friend overload. There's always someone. On the road you will also find very little pretext. Nobody has their guard. No one questions your motives or wonder what you're after. There is only you - as you are at this moment. A simple hello and before you know it, you travel with people for months.

But back home, I find the contrary. In or on the street, say hello or foreigners engaging in conversation is usually met with a look. "Why does this person for me? What do they want?" Setting up the man-made barriers and make designs in question. No one is as open as they are on the road. Once I was at home in Boston at a bar with my friends. While there I discovered a guy the quintessential Vietnam wearing backpack shirt - a red shirt with a yellow star on his chest. Anyone who has ever been to Vietnam and you will spy on hundreds on each trip around Southeast Asia.

among travelers, there is a certain camaraderie. We understand each other. We used to talking to strangers. That's exactly what you do. So I stopped and talked to this man about Asia Backpacking. It's not often you meet Americans who have been in the region. I think I on both hands the number of Americans are, I've met. He was friendly and we hit it off. It was almost as if we had traveled together. While we talked, I glanced at his friends over and around the confusion could see on her face. Why I said her boyfriend? Did I know him? Was I beat him? As our conversation ended and I returned to my friends, they asked the questions. No, I did not know him. We just talked about Vietnam. My friends, confused by this, replied with one word: strange. I had some social control to do just broken what travelers do around the world every day.

to girls is even worse in the conversation. Your first thought is always "what this guy wants? Is he trying to sleep with me?" An innocent conversation in a bar is never innocent, even if it is. But on the travel lane, I have to see and tons of innocent conversations between the sexes, and turn everything everything. Striking up a conversation with a girl does not have a hidden agenda, it is easy to make new friends.

come to this mentality back home has been difficult. They are used to the openness of travelers and conversations with perfect strangers. It's a friendly environment. But back home, these situations do not easily replicated. Every Sunday I go to a bar in New York City East Village HBO True Blood to see. Once after the show was over, I tried to talk some of the people. They made small talk, but it seemed in a hurry these strangers to get out of their midsts. I have the note.

Then I think maybe it's me.

Perhaps this is. In my head, and I'm just really socially awkward Maybe I smell. But when I ask other people who have to reintegrate into life back home, they say the same thing. They speak of the strange looks they get, and the walls set people. Readjustment is removed after a long time already difficult and this just makes it harder.

One of the greatest pleasures about traveling the world, that it with strangers you talk makes comfortable. It makes you open-minded and more comfortable. We get well to new friends.

Coming home on the opposite mindset is quite an adjustment. One that I do not really like. It's daunting. You have to work to break down barriers. People always think the worst. Few people seem interested, have only one call from a call in interest. When on the road, which is never a problem.

And after seven weeks in America, it makes me long for the road.

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