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You are always where you leave yourself.

It feels like it will make a difference, that long-awaited trip.

That exciting new job will keep you very busy, make you very rich, that

pioneering new plant medicine, that distracting new pleasure.

Thus does each man flee himself, Seneca says, quoting Lucretius and his

criticism of those Romans who sought out every opportunity to indulge their wanderlust.

We like to think that we can get away from our to indulge their wanderlust.

We like to think that we can get away from our problems, it will be different there,

that a change of scenery will change us.

But does it?

Not usually.

And when we get back, you are always where you leave yourself,

the Nationals sing in one of their songs. Wherever you go, there you are.

At the end of the day, you go home alone you go home to yourself we can still travel we can still

try new things we can still take that new job we just have to realistic. It's not going to fix us. It's not

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