tell me the meaning of traveling!! why am i investing so much time and money in traveling? what have i learnt from traveling? whenever i look back and try to find one single thing i have learnt about traveling..i can think of nothing but only recalled my arrogant manner of rejecting to adopt to the local culture and customs. why was i doing that? i rarely know why i raised my guard so high when i was in third world? have i forgot the beauty which we were born to have? have i been put off only because of my biased assumption or other people's scary experience of being rip-off and being taken advantage by some bad guys? that is not really fair for me to treat local people with this inappropriate manner right? shouldn;t i have embrased who they are other than declining all of them?
on the boat jouney to batabong( not so sure about the spelling but it is the second largest city in cambodia) and stopped over in a less-civilized on-water food store, i was complaining to the local that why they charge foreigners triple price and it would never happen in taiwan. his resentive smile and shocking comment was something i shalln;t or can;t forget - sadly it is not taiwan but cambodia!! how could i be so silly to forget this basic principle- shall never expect someone to change for u, but you can decide to change yourself. how could i ever expect cambodia to comply to what i am used to in taiwan? that is rather stupid..i shouls have reset myself for a brand new country and embrase it.
next time don;t forget to reset yourself and let yourself go wild to learn the merits of different cultures, customs, people and countries. that is one of the meaning of traveling,right? at least that is what i believe in right now!!!
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