“Bees do not enrich only themselves when visiting flowers, they also enrich the flowers.”

This is my first idea worth sharing today, and it was prompted by a travel article lamenting the “worst places” for certain types of people to travel. The article presupposes and implicitly promotes the idea that travel is about consuming the experience and the culture, while leaving no mark and contributing nothing. The entire point of travel though, is to engage in an exchange – to be an open-minded supplicant and a benevolent ambassador.

This can, and probably should, also be cross-applied to most of our endeavors and involvements. We should take what we can from each experience in the interest of learning and constructing a more robust self, while contributing as significantly as possible to said experiences (and others).