How To Travel With Purpose(Saudade)

Lim Jay Lin
2 min readSep 26, 2022

When in Rome do as the Romans so as they say in Brazil… Saudade!! This literally means in the spirit of adventure, so as it all were let’s begin.

The new struggle in respects to the getting most out of your holidays is not that of pleasure and sooth saying, but that of traveling purposefully. The big question; What are we traveling for? With every continent — to generalize things — speaks of the same old cliches, shopping, sight seeing, shaking up with the locals etc. But, firstly think and finally take to this instead — the world economy is in the S#*T House, so let’s think to travel with one thing in mind… spending money to win our way out of economic depression, get creative and ignore the news of Covid-19, after all it is leveling out and slowly becoming a thing of yesteryear, not to mention also shunned and broomed by the wayside shrugged of as just the latest strand of the common cold.

When spending and traveling, inclusive of airfare and hotels, let’s forge new worlds in aid of improving the economic climate the world over. We need to turn back the clock and do what most people did so well so many years ago, before the new millennium came to be, money was never the matter. But, as it were we are all wealthier now as a result of over spending and the latest in fiscal policies from the Americas to Asia, both regions have seen a great deal of change and not just monetarily. The new in speaks more of people that it does of product, so with things like travel and tourism being more intangible than the thing we most look too while traveling i.e. as is said avoid the cultural cliches and learn to understand the places you visit instead.

We all feel most at home while understanding the nuances of each culture — the cultures we visit. So, travel with purpose and forget what this generation has endured. Moving forward has never hurt anyone so, whether for business or pleasure, take travel to be as for about people, after all people make places and just the “architecture,” Travelers pay attention to the detail, so let’s do that instead.

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