“Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” ― Anthony Bourdain If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody.
Does anyone read it and feel sad because although it’s inspirational and true it contains the seeds of his own unhappy restlessness that could travel but not find a psychic home for himself?
Beautiful. Pain is inevitable - suffering is chosen, said another wise man. Sometimes it's hard to see how to not choose it and even great people can fall into that pit...
Or greatness can be difficult to sustain when ordinary human relationships remain out of reach. What gaineth a man etc I also think being a presenter always presenting stuff is difficult.
Every summer my wife and I take off from Florida for another adventure in our 19’ travel trailer. We are again taking an epic trip out west, currently we are in Junction, Texas and heading further west this morning. We are both seventy. Couldn’t agree more with the post today. 👍
We’re not 22 (we’re 68 and 70) but we still believe in the benefits and the rewards of traveling, and we know we’ve extended our lives because of the joy, fitness, mind-broadening “happy accidents” in our travels! We finished walking the 500-mile Camino Francés last November and will walk the Norte this fall.
This post resonates deeply with me. Moving and traveling have profoundly shaped my life, starting from when I was 18. My first big move was to Sweden for a few months for work. This experience opened my eyes to the subtle and unique aspects of a new culture, from the way people eat and the smells of their food to the architectural differences and how buildings are accessed. I was fascinated by details like the exposed parts of university student housing, which were so different from what I was used to.
Following Sweden, I moved to America, driven by a growing curiosity and desire to learn, explore, and experience as much as possible. These experiences made me more self-aware and appreciative of cultural diversity. Eventually, I found myself living in the UK, particularly in London, where the multicultural environment provided me with a microcosm of global cultures.
I wholeheartedly agree with Bourdain: everyone should seize the opportunity to move and immerse themselves in different cultures. Living in London, with its rich tapestry of cultural backgrounds, has allowed me to experience a variety of cultures in smaller doses, further fueling my belief in the value of travel and exploration.
Travel, indeed, changes you. It leaves marks on your heart, mind, and body, and most importantly, it allows you to leave something good behind. Embrace the journey, with all its ups and downs, and let it shape you into a more enriched and empathetic person.
LOVE THIS! My life as a digital nomad is absolutely showing me that constant paradigm shifts create a way more fulfilling life than someone who happily farms her own land and lives the american dream. I am attempting to write about this in my own way but Anthony Bourdain's way of sharing is more potent. Live the life you want now. It's worth it.
Travel is a modern luxury, a privilege that wasn't available to 99.8% of us in all of the history of humankind until just a few decades, less than a century, ago. And certainly not available purely for pleasure, personal growth or expanding one's mind, except in the most limited way. It's therefore a great boon of modernity, not something to take for granted. For sure a degree of wanderlust is baked into most of us, but it's not essential as in necessary to be fully human. I've traveled to quite a few countries, but my both my parents and grandparents never traveled at all until after they retired, and then only to places that were not 'foreign'. They'd never felt the need, and actually had trouble understanding anyone who did.
Bourdain makes me completely happy. Restlessness is sometimes a choice sometimes a compulsion; some of us are compelled by circumstances to move from unhappy places to better places. My people came over to the Americas on the Maafa, completely unwilling! And my more immediate ancestors walked by the millions carrying nothing or carrying everything we had on our backs away from a hateful place. Every great civilization however small and unknown has had an Hejira. “Exodus movement funky people.” as Bob Marley sang. We must move. I learn even from the homeless people I see everywhere in this country how to move on, keep moving, pack lighter, eat when I can, clean my body when I can, rest more, give and receive- stay alive! For some of us will never have a fixed abode. We are pastoral. Some call us vagabond. Gypsy. I hope to take a small thing from everywhere I’ve been and leave something good, maybe just a pheromone. So much of us is ephemeral. Home is where we are right now. Hope to break bread, find a nice meal waiting elsewhere. Safari salaam.
Does anyone read it and feel sad because although it’s inspirational and true it contains the seeds of his own unhappy restlessness that could travel but not find a psychic home for himself?
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beautiful. Pain is inevitable - suffering is chosen, said another wise man. Sometimes it's hard to see how to not choose it and even great people can fall into that pit...
Sounds a tad masochistic
Pain, unless physical is not inevitable the tragedy is that famous folk who are famous for being presenters often don’t get the help they need.
Or greatness can be difficult to sustain when ordinary human relationships remain out of reach. What gaineth a man etc I also think being a presenter always presenting stuff is difficult.
I don’t like to put myself in with those people but I’d say that it’s very true.
Every summer my wife and I take off from Florida for another adventure in our 19’ travel trailer. We are again taking an epic trip out west, currently we are in Junction, Texas and heading further west this morning. We are both seventy. Couldn’t agree more with the post today. 👍
Here, here, Bourdain! Wish he was still with us, flaws and all. Anybody else read that in his narrative tone of voice?
definitely!
We’re not 22 (we’re 68 and 70) but we still believe in the benefits and the rewards of traveling, and we know we’ve extended our lives because of the joy, fitness, mind-broadening “happy accidents” in our travels! We finished walking the 500-mile Camino Francés last November and will walk the Norte this fall.
Bourdain. A thoroughly lovely chap. 🙏🏻🌞
I miss Anthony Bourdain.
So do I.♥️
Mantra. This man changed a whole generation from consumers to explorers.
This post resonates deeply with me. Moving and traveling have profoundly shaped my life, starting from when I was 18. My first big move was to Sweden for a few months for work. This experience opened my eyes to the subtle and unique aspects of a new culture, from the way people eat and the smells of their food to the architectural differences and how buildings are accessed. I was fascinated by details like the exposed parts of university student housing, which were so different from what I was used to.
Following Sweden, I moved to America, driven by a growing curiosity and desire to learn, explore, and experience as much as possible. These experiences made me more self-aware and appreciative of cultural diversity. Eventually, I found myself living in the UK, particularly in London, where the multicultural environment provided me with a microcosm of global cultures.
I wholeheartedly agree with Bourdain: everyone should seize the opportunity to move and immerse themselves in different cultures. Living in London, with its rich tapestry of cultural backgrounds, has allowed me to experience a variety of cultures in smaller doses, further fueling my belief in the value of travel and exploration.
Travel, indeed, changes you. It leaves marks on your heart, mind, and body, and most importantly, it allows you to leave something good behind. Embrace the journey, with all its ups and downs, and let it shape you into a more enriched and empathetic person.
Yagoda x
LOVE THIS! My life as a digital nomad is absolutely showing me that constant paradigm shifts create a way more fulfilling life than someone who happily farms her own land and lives the american dream. I am attempting to write about this in my own way but Anthony Bourdain's way of sharing is more potent. Live the life you want now. It's worth it.
“Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.”
Travel is a modern luxury, a privilege that wasn't available to 99.8% of us in all of the history of humankind until just a few decades, less than a century, ago. And certainly not available purely for pleasure, personal growth or expanding one's mind, except in the most limited way. It's therefore a great boon of modernity, not something to take for granted. For sure a degree of wanderlust is baked into most of us, but it's not essential as in necessary to be fully human. I've traveled to quite a few countries, but my both my parents and grandparents never traveled at all until after they retired, and then only to places that were not 'foreign'. They'd never felt the need, and actually had trouble understanding anyone who did.
There is something even here now, in his words, an echo of Tony, where we're all standing there with him, nodding. "Yes, Tone, yes man."
Bourdain makes me completely happy. Restlessness is sometimes a choice sometimes a compulsion; some of us are compelled by circumstances to move from unhappy places to better places. My people came over to the Americas on the Maafa, completely unwilling! And my more immediate ancestors walked by the millions carrying nothing or carrying everything we had on our backs away from a hateful place. Every great civilization however small and unknown has had an Hejira. “Exodus movement funky people.” as Bob Marley sang. We must move. I learn even from the homeless people I see everywhere in this country how to move on, keep moving, pack lighter, eat when I can, clean my body when I can, rest more, give and receive- stay alive! For some of us will never have a fixed abode. We are pastoral. Some call us vagabond. Gypsy. I hope to take a small thing from everywhere I’ve been and leave something good, maybe just a pheromone. So much of us is ephemeral. Home is where we are right now. Hope to break bread, find a nice meal waiting elsewhere. Safari salaam.
Wander lust indeed. 🙏❤️
Been there done that as a younger person and am grateful I did.
You could still do so now ya know 😉
Bourdain rocks!