Monday, September 04, 2006

Travel wise

I haven't traveled extensively, but have been fortunate enough to have backpacked in Europe as many others do. Although that trip was ten years ago now, the lessons I learned and its effect on me still hold. I witnessed the change it made in a friend who came to Montreal to visit this past weekend. He'd been invited to visit Montreal from Toronto by a number of us who worked with him, but always declined. He went to Europe for two months this summer and came back with a fresh perspective. He was in Montreal this past Saturday after spontaneously deciding to visit after having traveled to Ottawa earlier that day. His experience let him see that he would have nothing to worry about in making a simple trip to Montreal where he knew people. It was great to see that change in him and to see that in general, change is indeed possible.

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