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Alot of people use travel to try to fix their lives or escape their problems. It never works.

Most people's travel isn't something to be jealous of anyway when you pry into it.

I do recommend a good, hard journey in your life though. Take your shoes, or a bicycle, and go somewhere. One week, two weeks. Enough to be tired and want to go back home really hard. Enough to have to deal with a problem without a credit card (good example: bike broke down 10 miles from the closest city, not a soul around to help you).

But most importantly, enough to enjoy the moment despite the hardship.

Once you discover that it is possible, that it is logical, then a new life awaits.

Travel did make me happier in the middle of a depression though. Doing it regularly is great for the mood.

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