HAVE YOUR SAY. 1. Read the extract below and then comment upon this quotation: “I should like to spend the whole of my time in travelling abroad

1. Read the extract below and then comment upon this quotation: “I should like to spend the whole of my time in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.” (William Hazlitt)

Adventure is necessary to us all. It keeps us from growing stale and old; it stimulates our imagination. It gives us that movement and change which are necessary to our well-being.

One of the objects of travel is to go in search of beauty. The beauty spots of the world are magnets which draw pilgrims year after year. Yet even more valuable to the traveller is the knowledge which he gets of his fellow men by going among people of different enthusiasms. It is the story of the stay-at-home who is always ready to call someone else “queer” because his ways are a little different; the much travelled man has sympathy to be able to understand another point of view than his own. Frequent travel to other countries by all sorts and conditions of men and women would be the best possible insurance against war.

And then there is for the traveller the great joy of coming home again. He who never leaves his home sees all its imperfection; but the voyager, when his lust for sew Scenes is satiated, turns his thoughts towards home with longing and affection. However humble his home may be, it contains all the things with which he is most familiar. He loves them, and being parted for a little while from them increases his desire for them. So the traveller, besides the delight of travel, has the additional satisfaction of a fuller appreciation of his home.

(From “Fifty Model Essays” by Joyce Miller)

2. Comment upon the following quotation:

“When we are young we travel to see the world, afterwards to make sure it is still here.”

(Cyril Connoly)

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