I like the way you think, especially with regards to happiness, and I would love to hear more about this part:
> and for god sakes, travel
I'm very fortunate to have a position where I work exactly 40 hours (some of which is programming). This has allowed me the freedom to pursue other activities, such as meeting and developing an extremely deep relationship with my girlfriend, being an active participant in my church, completing Financial Peace University, joining a local Toastmasters club, and joining CrossFit and getting in the best shape of my life.*
However, I have not yet done any major traveling. Why do you put such high importance on it?
I'm not asking why traveling is generally good, but why _you_ specifically are recommending it so highly.
* [Edit: After reading this, it sounds like bragging but sincerely that was not my goal. I just wanted to say I totally understand and agree about what you said with regards to work and happiness.]
In context it was meant as reference to the story of Bangladesh, meaning you don't know how lucky you are until you travel a bit of the world.
My story however, is pretty typical, I worked through my 20s and didn't take time to travel then even though I had disposable income and more importantly was in charge of only myself. When I got married, got a dog and had kids, traveling increases in complexity at O(an^k) where k is the number of people traveling together and a is the number of people you have to arrange babysitting (or dogsitting) for.
Now travel seems like a giant luxury an I doubt I will truly enjoy it again until the kids are in college. By then we'll be so bogged down with college costs, there will be no money.
I had the opportunity to go to China for work and it really opened my eyes about how little of the world I have seen.
> and for god sakes, travel
I'm very fortunate to have a position where I work exactly 40 hours (some of which is programming). This has allowed me the freedom to pursue other activities, such as meeting and developing an extremely deep relationship with my girlfriend, being an active participant in my church, completing Financial Peace University, joining a local Toastmasters club, and joining CrossFit and getting in the best shape of my life.*
However, I have not yet done any major traveling. Why do you put such high importance on it?
I'm not asking why traveling is generally good, but why _you_ specifically are recommending it so highly.
* [Edit: After reading this, it sounds like bragging but sincerely that was not my goal. I just wanted to say I totally understand and agree about what you said with regards to work and happiness.]