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Transient or resident, which is better?
So as I travel about, staying in a town no more than 3 days, I got to thinking. Its cool, cause I get to see so much, get a little taste of everything, and then move on before I get bored.
The downside is, I will always be an outsider, I will never belong.
Before I left, I would ride my bike down to the coffeeshop, the pizza place, wherever, and they knew me, would greet me, i was part of the community. I belonged.
I think we humans, or at least most of us, are hardwired to travel and live in packs, be part of a group. Hence traditonial punishment was being ostracized, getting kicked out of the tribe. Cut off a thiefs right hand in the middle east, since they use the left to wipe thier ass, and since you eat communally, someone without a right hand was automatically forced to eat alone, outside the group. Punishment.
There are some people who like the solitude, the hermits and such, but they are rare i think.
So, I`m starting to wonder, as nice as living out of a backpack is, seeing different stuff, free and unencumberd, it can be, and will eventualyl get lonely, I think. Assuming I will be a nomad for the rest of my life, cause I am kinda digging it now, and I donīt really have anywhere to go, I wonder how I will change, what will happen.
Wonder what others think.
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