Robert Louis Stevenson quotation, from Virginibus Puerisque, 1881 "Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour."
Probably a balm to "we won the argument" Jeremy but maybe less of a comfort to most of us struggling with real life.
I always travel in hope, hope I will get there!! At 6’ 3” most travelling is a nightmare, unless someone wants to cover my costs for an upgrade to 1st class TD
Glad to see you are in the spirit of Xmas, I will send them by private message as I wouldnt want to whole world to have them, that would be silly TD
Is it not a piece about life’s journey? I guess when you’ve arrived there’s, either, nothing to look forward to or you’re dead and therefore, it is better to be a live ‘traveller’ and toil. For the latter proves, both, the worth/contribution of your existence and that you have not ‘arrived’.
OR after you have arrived you can start planning your next adventure and therefore your onward travel - and so the cycle continues until of course ones very last trip - cheery subject for Xmas eve TD
That poetic septic, Mark Twain also penned that: "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” Damn that is so true even today!
And he certainly travelled himself but in his own writings of his journeys a considerable amount of that scepticism leaked out. His comparisons between biblical accounts and the actual late 19th century Holyland for example
Or for Scandinavian reincarnationists First you're Bjorn Life's a Bitch Then you Die Then you're Bjorn again
