Aphorism #4: Travelling is Overrated

Travelling, a chocolate-covered peanut

At its core, travelling is from the same instinctual cabbage patch as gossip. It is gilded nosiness — a snooping into the exotic life of the others. This becomes obvious when you hear returned travellers regale their friends at home with stories of their far-flung cousins: "You'll never believe what they do over there". This is the germ of what travelling is; it is the peanut of the chocolate-covered peanut.