A journey through ¨ Why We Travel¨ by Pico Iyer
Have you ever felt chained to you`re your mundane reality. Chained to a day to day
average lense that only permits us to look rather than notice. Chained to an image of how we
are in an office rather than an image that we gather through self finding. We are so trapped in
the media and the commodity of the every day life; we need something to break the routine.
¨Why We Travel¨ by British essayist and novelist Pico Iyer explores several motives for why we
travel in order to inform us on these motives. Pico Iyer’s perspective on travel opens our eyes
as well as our minds to truly understand what it is to feel a place rather than just visit it. Pico
Iyer conveys the message that …show more content…
Love can be described as impulsive, free from judgment and even in some moments
timeless.¨When we are in love. We live without a past or future, for a moment at least. ¨ ( ¨
Why we travel ¨ Pico (Iyer ). Travel much like love at times can be impulsive when we truly
travel Pico Iyer explains that when truly traveling we can fall in love with the idea of a place and
the fact we have freedom; and in many times no boundaries. When traveling Pico Iyer explains
that we live without a past or a future this means that we can get stuck in a moment and start
again. Pico Iyer writes that ¨travel is like love, in the end.¨ However by traveling we also go
back to moments we love and we re- live them. It is this love that brings us to surrender to
chance. Iyer writes ¨ I at least travel in search of of an innocent eye that can return me to a
more innocent self. ¨ this quote can strongly then suggest that Iyer has love for his innocence
and for that memory of innocence; this why he searches for an innocent eye because in the
Have you ever felt chained to you`re your mundane reality. Chained to a day to day
average lense that only permits us to look rather than notice. Chained to an image of how we
are in an office rather than an image that we gather through self finding. We are so trapped in
the media and the commodity of the every day life; we need something to break the routine.
¨Why We Travel¨ by British essayist and novelist Pico Iyer explores several motives for why we
travel in order to inform us on these motives. Pico Iyer’s perspective on travel opens our eyes
as well as our minds to truly understand what it is to feel a place rather than just visit it. Pico
Iyer conveys the message that …show more content…
Love can be described as impulsive, free from judgment and even in some moments
timeless.¨When we are in love. We live without a past or future, for a moment at least. ¨ ( ¨
Why we travel ¨ Pico (Iyer ). Travel much like love at times can be impulsive when we truly
travel Pico Iyer explains that when truly traveling we can fall in love with the idea of a place and
the fact we have freedom; and in many times no boundaries. When traveling Pico Iyer explains
that we live without a past or a future this means that we can get stuck in a moment and start
again. Pico Iyer writes that ¨travel is like love, in the end.¨ However by traveling we also go
back to moments we love and we re- live them. It is this love that brings us to surrender to
chance. Iyer writes ¨ I at least travel in search of of an innocent eye that can return me to a
more innocent self. ¨ this quote can strongly then suggest that Iyer has love for his innocence
and for that memory of innocence; this why he searches for an innocent eye because in the