Can This New Way of Traveling Make You a Better Person?

Better yet, can it make the world a better place?

Gazing through the window next to your seat, lines of tiny houses on top of familiar terrain emerge as you go in and out of the wispy clouds. A member from the cabin crew comes on the overhead speaker to let you know you will start your descent shortly. You’re home, but something is different. You are a new you. You feel refreshed, revitalized, and transformed.

If you’ve had a life-changing experience on a trip, you can probably relate to this feeling. However the way that we travel in today’s day and age, most of us come home feeling exhausted from our holidays. Just think, how many times have you heard someone say they need a “vacation from their vacation?” — I am guilty of being that person on a couple of occasions.

We fill our trips itinerary from take-off to landing with experience after experience. Trying to check off as many things as humanly possible from our bucket lists in the span of a week. When we touch down back home we feel hazy, unable to process the full glory of what we just experienced. It’s all just a blur, even recalling what happened becomes difficult.

However as the pandemic brought travel to a screeching halt these past years, our stillness brought reflection. This inward journey sent many of us on a…