Wanderlust

A 2012 essay by Mark Manson — written when he was still mid-2000s perpetual-traveller — interrogating his own wanderlust. He asks whether "wanderlust" is desire pulling you toward the world or fear pushing you away from your own life, what perpetual travel reveals about identity, and where the line is between curiosity and avoidance. Personal, lightly philosophical, and self-implicating rather than prescriptive.