Comments on: Traveling alone frees you from the expectations of others http://www.vagablogging.net/traveling-alone-frees-you-from-the-expectations-of-others.html Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:50:10 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Michael http://www.vagablogging.net/traveling-alone-frees-you-from-the-expectations-of-others.html/comment-page-1#comment-1234 Michael Wed, 02 May 2007 04:28:05 +0000 http://qs1937.pair.com/users/bootlabs/vagablogging.net/_wp/traveling-alone-frees-you-from-the-expectations-of-others.html#comment-1234 The quote is not taken exactly from the book. Only some small changes but I hate it when quotes are passed around the internet and slightly change over time. The full quote taken from the book is: 'Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others. They may have a particular vision of who we are and hence subtly prevent certain sides of us from emerging: ...Being closely observed by a companion can inhibit us from observing others…' The quote is not taken exactly from the book. Only some small changes but I hate it when quotes are passed around the internet and slightly change over time. The full quote taken from the book is:

‘Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others. They may have a particular vision of who we are and hence subtly prevent certain sides of us from emerging: …Being closely observed by a companion can inhibit us from observing others…’

]]> By: Karen http://www.vagablogging.net/traveling-alone-frees-you-from-the-expectations-of-others.html/comment-page-1#comment-1233 Karen Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:46:50 +0000 http://qs1937.pair.com/users/bootlabs/vagablogging.net/_wp/traveling-alone-frees-you-from-the-expectations-of-others.html#comment-1233 I've heard it's best to vacation with friends, but travel alone. Except, I wonder if when traveling with a friend, if you do undergo changes, can it make them manifest themselves more solidly, with more comitment, to have to live those changes in front of a "witness" who knows how you were/are. Does is make the changes possibly less ephemeral, if a little less drastic? I’ve heard it’s best to vacation with friends, but travel alone. Except, I wonder if when traveling with a friend, if you do undergo changes, can it make them manifest themselves more solidly, with more comitment, to have to live those changes in front of a “witness” who knows how you were/are. Does is make the changes possibly less ephemeral, if a little less drastic?

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