{"id":1474,"date":"2015-05-31T10:11:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T14:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2015-05-31T10:14:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T14:14:34","slug":"travel-therapy-has-done-me-wonders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=1474","title":{"rendered":"Travel Therapy Has Done Me Wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Travel therapy has done me wonders.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago I was at the end of the road.\u00a0 That same familiar, old road that goes around my neighborhood and\u00a0takes me to work and back home again.\u00a0\u00a0It’s startling to think our lives are spent in the same local places, going to work, coming home, going about your neighborhood, living the routine over and over again. Despite how interesting and fulfilling, or not, life might be, we all shuffle around on the same bit of turf doing our thing day after day. Even getaways out of town have become commonplace. The drive from Boston to Vermont has become as familiar as the back of my hand.\u00a0Perhaps\u00a0that’s why the seasons are important. They make the familiar new again, at least for a while and until that novelty wears off.<\/p>\n

As for\u00a0work,\u00a0you can love what you do, but after a while\u00a0that too\u00a0becomes the same thing over and over again: New day, new\u00a0people, new crisis,\u00a0same old same old.<\/p>\n

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Then there is travel therapy.<\/p>\n

Traveling reminds me that I still need to go down new roads, that I need everything to be different,\u00a0 exciting , surprising…again.\u00a0 It reacquaints me with my youth,\u00a0when everything in the world was new and exciting and full of possibilities. The simple fun of just living life comes back as I go down\u00a0new roads to new places.\u00a0It doesn’t matter if the locals are all bored out of their minds going through their routines, from my perspective their world is exotic and intriguing.<\/p>\n

Yes indeed, travel therapy reinvigorates me and helps me embrace\u00a0my humdrum routine with new enthusiasm…until its effects wear off …again.<\/p>\n

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Travel therapy has done me wonders. A few weeks ago I was at the end of the road.\u00a0 That same familiar, old road that goes around my neighborhood and\u00a0takes me to work and back home again.\u00a0\u00a0It’s startling to think our … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}