Trust and Travel
I’ve been following a discussion online about trust and travel. When you’re hitchhiking and staying in different people’s couches trust is a part of life. Today somebody wrote a comment I would like to share here.
This is from a book called Trust by Alphonso Lingi:
Trust is inherent in travel. We ask a stranger for directions, or for a ride. We live among people whose language, culture, and motivations we don’t understand. Trust binds us to another with an intoxicating energy; it is brave, giddy, joyous, and lustful. A sudden attraction careens into sexual surrender, and trust becomes unconditional. Trust laughs at danger and leaps into the unknown.
[...] “Travel far enough,” he concludes, “and we find ourselves happily back in the infantile world —where trust is ultimate”.
Posted by Weston Hankins on June 14th, 2007 in Transcendental Reflections
Hi! I’m very interested in Trust and Travel as well, where this discussion was happening?
Ciao!
Hey paolo!
The discussion is taking place in the CouchSurfing Philosophy Group… you can find it here. Greetings!