Comment: To see the world is to put yourself in the way of potential harm. There is no getting around that fact, writes bengroundwater
There’s no travel without risk. Simply walking out of your front door carries inherent danger. Driving to the airport is perilous. Getting on that plane is a supreme act of trust and of boundless optimism.
Sometimes we place our trust in other people to make decisions and take the right action: we go skydiving with someone else who has to pull the cord; we climb cliffs and assume someone else will hold the rope. Other times, however, we just place our trust in the universe to make all of those unknowables OK.We do this with little thought, because that’s the only way it could ever be done.
Travel experiences frequently require us to put our trust in others. But we do so because the rewards are immense.We come from Australia, where everything is so heavily regulated, where the government keeps such a watchful eye over every business and activity that you become lulled into a false sense of security when you travel, into a belief that if youBut risk works differently in other countries. Personal responsibility has a far greater importance in the rest of the world.
These are the ones that grab your attention as a traveller, that give you pause for thought and elicit such sympathy and horror.Anyone who ventures outside their home in search of excitement and wonder risks unexpected tragedy.
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