Okay, so one of the thing people do is vacations from time to time to fulfill their personal life. Most people want to go to other places for a few days to no more than a week to explore a new place for its materialistic value, but not to observe people and their culture in there. It seems that most people want to go to a new place to take the wrong impressions, instead of seeing both the good and the ugly part of exploring a new continent. When exploring a new country or place, how do you want to treat it, if you considered it as a relationship? You only want to explore it for a night to get excited about it or you want to explore it for months to years (if possible) to understand the beauty behind its complicated system that differs but performs competitively well (hopefully) within other countries. If you go for the primary reason, then it is no different than going on a day night stand with a stranger. You only will want to mesmerize and get excited about the looks of the stranger until you get bored of it. If your reason goes to the latter, then you will want to know also their personality, what they like and they do not like, and hopefully, always find something new and exciting, as you fill more and more pieces in your mind understanding the individual through new perspectives you would never wondered to explore. This aspect is only taken in relationships. However, it can be applied on other aspects like exploring new countries. Many people want to explore places as tourist, to have fun, to fulfill their personal life. As you can see, this is an effect of the main source of the split between personal and non-personal. Our workplace or culture has focused so much on the non-personal, that our free time is forced to be spent on personal ways without any rationality on them. Instead of spending our free time wisely, we spend it in the most catastrophic way, enjoying stuff without building any relationships or understandings. For the terms of exploring other places, people commit little time on specific place for destination. That is to avoid the confrontation of having to think rationally. Because after we are not more overwhelmed over the surface, the excitement it brought us to explore that new place, we have to face the cultures and the peoples' living in there. For most, this becomes a boring part for individuals to explore. They do not want to build bridges or understandings of those cultures, as much as the entertainment it has to offer. They will find it boring going to the same place more than once or twice due to they cannot explore it in a different way, in a different attitude, in a different direction from the previous time they explored it. They will instead think and be stuck on their heads , "Why am I in this place again? I prefer to explore a new place.". After all, exploring more places, satisfy the personal self more than staying in one place where the personal entertainment will end at one point to be very exciting, and will start to be mediocre and of less intensity as it combines non-personal input for the tourist to digest. For that reason, in order to maximize their vacation time, they will try to go into different places as much as possible, different countries, different cities, all for the sake of exploring new places "surface" at the sake of "understanding" them. However, this sacrifice, it is not out due to the main intention of the individual wanting to ignore other countries identities. It is because he got overwhelmed from his working environment or pressure to be all involved in non-personal tasks that pushed the individual to be very thirsty for exploring as much personal experiences as possible. What is the effects after doing such a trip or vacation? It will be a painful experience. Of course, you will definitely lie "that you enjoyed it", but deep inside you, you will not be satisfied, as they did not brought anything integral to make your life more successful or more of added value. All you did was look at the surface of a place and just idolize it. It will be an empty feeling as that feeling has already vanished, like your last meal you ate. Like after eating a meal, over time, you will be hungry for doing vacations again, due to your personal self getting thirsty for it again. And with no wonder, you will plan and do your vacations the same way you did it last time. In summary, people should do explorations instead of vacations. Trips that will have last meaningful experiences (this catchphrase travel agencies use does not apply to most people as they do trips only for exploring the surface of a country). However, in order to do that, they should take their trips not for their pursuit of satisfying their personal self, but to learn and understand the countries surrounding. You may say you do not have a lot of time. But if you already do trips for vacations, you can do them less often and each of bigger length. Most people I talked to people about vacations, they only talk about the surface, and not about the people and culture. It is really disgusting to hear how people are proud going so many places, when in fact it is no better than just going to one foreign place and experience that place for many years.
In conclusion, the main problem for people switching to be explorers instead of tourists is the environment they live most of the time: non-personal. That forces them to be thirsty seeking as much destinations as possible. There are so many benefits being an explorer. The most important one, the ability to learn and understand a country's culture, which can give you a different dimension on how to see and view things. Many people think looking at the surface of a country will be enough inspiration. As so much as that obvious as it seems, that is not the case of. You will not be able to create symbols or representations of other countries values and interests and their patterns of lifestyles without understanding their culture and its foundations. Instead, you will take those surfaces only to your own viewpoint, to your own upbringing, which is limited in originality and visibility to a bigger audience. Besides inspiration, it can become a component of your lifestyle, an integration of your values and beliefs, for a better growth of your own individuality.