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There is something brutal in today’s travelling. Something that always scaryfies me when I am leaving the board of the plane and I take a step on the land. On this foreign land, where the Sun shines a bit different, people hurry in the odd way or they do not hurry at all. Travelling signs although seemingly the same, not entirely and a little man on traffic lights flashes strangely. And this otherness of thousands of kilometers appears suddenly, because traveled just in few hours hatched in the uncomfortable chair with the microspace for legs and sandwiches without the taste (usually they have more incommon with sponges than with actual food). Nine hours flight can take us to the other side of the world. When we travel with a car or with a train everything changes smoothly and slowly. We see gradual change. We get a chance to encompass with sight and thought the broader context. I think that this rapid style of travelling makes harm to the way we observe and experience the reality. We do everything us fast as possible, our travel schedules are planned to every millisecond. Cause we have been strolling around neighborhoods via Google Maps and we have read endless amount of articles, we saw millions of photos about the particular place and we know exactly what we are looking for. So the moment we arrive somewhere the time of ticking off the to-do list begins. And in this rush from one Must-See place to another we forget to simply look around attentively. We do not consider in the schedule chats with a fruit sellers in the market and because of that we are losing an opportunity to learn that this woman in the big skirt who sells us pomegranates is teacher, but the salary she gets working at school does not cover her basic expenses and the men next to her is an engineer who is working there to make ends meet. This kind of chats can teach us about local issues, they may present us social and economic problems that people somewhere faces. This dialogues give us a chance to hear someone's story. Very often we will need basic theatral abilities to understand them, cause there will be a need to combine funny, pantomime way of communicating with a poor amount of words. But it always surprises me how much we can understand with knowing just basic of language. The most important thing is to be open for another person and to find time for her while buying some oranges or waiting for a bus. We should just chill out. We do not have to see all “top ten things to do, make” and so on. In the end the most precious is the story we hear and share with people on our way. So while travelling we should take time and sit comfortably on some bench or when we will get to the situation of pushing an old “Łada” car with an old georgian taxi driver we should not get angry and irritated, but we should be open for what may seem small, but surely can be a beautiful experience.