OK. As part of my ongoing series of investigations into my own head I have decided to add in visual aids to put my feelings into pictures.
Today's topic is revisitng my feelings about travel. This time, with pix!
When I look at the world, or at least, parts of it, I start by creating a circle
There are things I need -- a place to pray, a place to eat or buy food, maybe a Judaica store. I look for places that are surrounded by the things that make my practice of my identity easy.
Then we have the world which is also, strangely enough, expressed by a circle
Jewish museums, Jewish friends, Jewish history -- I have no interest in most things, but I do like to visit people I know and see things that matter to me.
These circles overlap pretty completely when assessing my life in Teaneck, Bergen County and the NYC tri-state area. When I consider traveling, I use the same metric to decide whether a trip would be a reasonable decision to make. I find that in most places in the world, those circles barely overlap. The few things I want to see are not necessarily anywhere near a community where I can comfortably practice my religion.
In most of Israel, these circles are effectively identical. Why would I ever go somewhere where I would have to compromise either of the priorities that those circles represent?
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