The Transformation Metric

Why do we think travel is supposed to change us?

When Sigmund Freud first saw the imposing columns of the Acropolis, he had a funny thought: “So all this really does exist, just as we learnt at school!”

Until that very moment, he had never doubted the monument’s existence. Never harbored any belief that his school books might have been lying about it. But when he walked up to the Grecian ruins, instead of the delight he had been expecting, Freud found himself feeling a strange sense of disbelief.