"When I buy new stuff, such as a phone or a pair of jeans, it's exciting at first but then the happiness usually fades away. It's like I need to immediately buy something else just to get the same feeling again. Travel, on the other hand, offers me something completely different. The trips I've taken to more than 30 countries give me lasting happiness because of the memories I now hold of them."
"I became interested in traveling abroad early on in my life. I recall that I loved playing with a pretend passport when I was around 6. I even designed stamps for the different countries I'd traveled to during my pretend play. As a teenager, I loved playing a computer game called "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" where players followed clues to hunt down bad guys and traveled across the globe to do so."
I prefer travel experiences over accumulating material possessions because travel creates lasting happiness through memories. Flexible, project-based work in market research enables long vacations and fits travel priorities. Purchases like phones or jeans produce short-term excitement that quickly fades, prompting further buys, while trips across more than 30 countries provide enduring joy. Early play with a pretend passport, a childhood interest in global exploration, and a first overseas trip to Vanuatu at 18 shaped a lifelong focus on cultural learning. Solo travel boosted confidence and varied trips—sailing in Croatia, street food in Vietnam, snow-shoeing in Japan—deliver unique fulfillment.
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