What’s So Bad About Falling In Love On The Road?
“Whatever you do, don’t fall in love.” This is the advice my resident advisor gave me when he found out I was heading to England to study abroad for a semester during my senior year. It has stuck with me ever since, not because I thought it was a good bit of wisdom, but because I found it to be a completely useless and ridiculous thing to tell someone, especially someone with the heart of an adventurer.
Let me tell you why this is a terrible piece of advice.
In my mind, it assumes that falling in love abroad can only end badly: either you have to give up everything back home to be with this person, you return home completely devastated because you had to break up, or maybe you try to make the long-distance thing work for a while but eventually it fails and again you end up heartbroken and miserable.
But as an avid traveler who has loved and lost many times while abroad, I refuse to believe that these are the only options. For one thing, what…
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