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I went to other places some time ago. It was obviously not a holiday, but I saw an endless stream of tourists.
There are travelers who travel alone, families with their families, and groups of tour after group.
In just half a day, five or six tour groups passed in front of me.
The most impressive thing is one of the flags-I don’t know if I remember wrong, but I seem to have seen it twice in different places. If it’s not the same flag, it probably belongs to the same company.
Why do more people travel during the economic downturn?
According to common sense, when ordinary people’s income is limited, life should be more budget-conscious.
After all, to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, if the general environment is like this, people can only adjust their own consumption patterns.
Not only travel, but even a small county like my hometown has held several concerts one after another.
Although I haven’t been there personally, I think there must be a lot of audience, otherwise it won’t be held one after another.
Tourism is consumption, and watching concerts is also consumption. These are not daily necessities, but more like a spiritual adjustment.
When I first worked, I always thought that when I made money, I would have to go out and have a good time.
If he didn’t make any money, he wouldn’t dare to go out to play. But now, what has changed?
I think it may have something to do with the pressure on modern people.
After working in the same unit for a long time, the fixed work and rest, repetitive processes, and the life of three o’clock and one line every day are regular, but they are gradually numbing.
Travel allows us to briefly switch environments and be ourselves completely in completely strange places.
Many people usually have to choose words carefully in their circle of clockwork friends for fear of saying something wrong. But once we embark on the journey, we don’t know anyone else, and the people in the street don’t know us.
This strangeness brings complete relaxation-finally, I don’t have to wear any masks.
“Be yourself” sounds ordinary, but in the fast-paced work and life, we may not always be able to keep that authenticity.
Although travel is an expense, we may get far more from it than we pay. Otherwise, how could so many people be willing to pay for it?
The economy is down, but there are more travelers-perhaps precisely because the pressure of most people has not decreased.
Of course, in addition to office workers in the struggling age, there are many retired elderly people on the journey.
Many of what I saw in the tour group were white-haired figures.
These elders have less worries than young people when they travel, because their time is more free.
From the perspective of economic conditions, the elderly who are usually willing to travel have a long life of food and clothing.
Old people’s perception of the passage of time is often deeper than young people’s. Perhaps they truly realize the limited years and know that their youth is gone forever, so they cherish every opportunity to travel more.
Travel has changed from a pure consumption behavior to a way to relax the body and mind. Walking to strange cities, breathing fresh air, and the pleasure of traveling rejuvenates people.
Others think more rationally: Since they can’t find their dream job at the moment, it’s better to wait and see.
Instead of settling for a job you don’t like, it’s better to take advantage of this hard-to-spare time to go out and see the vast mountains and rivers.
After all, not everyone can have a long enough vacation to travel. If young people want to travel in no hurry, most of them are in the gap of naked resignation.
Because it is difficult for work to provide a complete long vacation, many people take advantage of their unemployment stalls to go out for a walk.
More and more people fall in love with traveling, perhaps because they gradually understand that life is an experience, and only by feeling it with your heart and experiencing it with your own eyes can you live up to this life.
