I think you are right about my failure to truly become nomadic. I therefore likely never found out if I could be happier as a roaming adventurer.
Though, to the point of your post, I’d argue a non-nomadic existent with consistent work seems to be the happy equilibrium for most personality types.
I think novelty wears off quick when I travel. And adding additional novelty only serves to remind me of the fact that while every new experience is novel, it also similar to other novel experiences, and therefore not that novel at all.
My current conclusion is, for my personality type, travel ends up to be a grass-is-greener sort of exercise where I am itching to go somewhere new, only to miss home—and all that home offers—soon after I leave. I’d posit most people are like this. That is why people have “jobs” and travel on 3-15 day vacations.
I think you are right about my failure to truly become nomadic. I therefore likely never found out if I could be happier as a roaming adventurer.
Though, to the point of your post, I’d argue a non-nomadic existent with consistent work seems to be the happy equilibrium for most personality types.
I think novelty wears off quick when I travel. And adding additional novelty only serves to remind me of the fact that while every new experience is novel, it also similar to other novel experiences, and therefore not that novel at all.
My current conclusion is, for my personality type, travel ends up to be a grass-is-greener sort of exercise where I am itching to go somewhere new, only to miss home—and all that home offers—soon after I leave. I’d posit most people are like this. That is why people have “jobs” and travel on 3-15 day vacations.