Wanderlust<\/b> is “a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world.” It’s also made up and I hate it.<\/p>\n
You know those types, right?<\/p>\n
“Oh, I love to travel, me!<\/em>” No. Shut up. Just stay where you are and shut up.<\/p>\n I’m not saying never travel. I’m saying don’t fetishise your greed for conquering the world.<\/p>\n Having ‘wanderlust’ is such a first-world experience. Being able to travel anywhere ever at all is such a privilege. Turning it into a lifestyle is an insult to those who struggle to simply get by in life.<\/p>\n The world isn’t your playground. Getting all giggly about going and ruining some lovely little foreign beach reeks with echoes of colonialism that anyone with any self-consciousness should feel awfully guilty about. We as Westerners historically went wherever we liked in the world, imposing our values, and it didn’t turn out so well.<\/p>\n The world isn’t there for you to ruin and take a selfie with. So just leave it alone.<\/p>\n Besides, there’s restaurants on my road that I still haven’t been to yet. Why should I have some great urge to go explore the rest of the big ol’ world when I haven’t even explored my back garden fully yet?<\/p>\n Let me quickly sum up what other countries will be like, if you really must obsess about going to them:<\/p>\n There, I think I’ve just about summed up the grand total of possible travel experience you’ll ever have. Do you really need to go and do it all in person now?<\/p>\n I’m aware that this is probably the grouchiest rant I’ve ever written, but wanderlust<\/em> really really annoys me. Even the word is dumb. Anyone who describes themselves as having it is essentially irredeemable.<\/p>\n It’s a self-centric narcissism masquerading as some kind of pseudo-syndrome manifested through the voyeuristic lenses of social media and blogging. Yes, I hate it so much it made me write a sentence like that.<\/p>\n Go travel if you want. Just shut up about it.<\/p>\n This has been a #HotTake<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wanderlust is “a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world.” It’s also made up and I hate it. You know those types, right? “Oh, I love to travel, me!” “You can’t keep me tied down. I’ve always got to be moving!” “I want to see the whole world and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[121,305,304,303],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-hot-take","tag-things-i-hate","tag-travel","tag-wanderlust"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n“You can’t keep me tied down. I’ve always got to be moving!”
\n“I want to see the whole world and have magical adventures in it.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n