2.24.25: Has Travel Changed?

Has travel become more of a checklist—a way to say, "Look at me, look how cool I am"? It’s hard not to wonder. Social media’s made it easy to reduce experiences to photo ops, where the goal is more about collecting likes than memories. But I’d like to believe many still travel for the right reasons: to lose themselves in new cultures, to learn, to connect, or just to enjoy the unfamiliar. Still, I wonder—how many people travel without sharing a single picture online? Is it even possible now to quietly savor an experience without feeling the need to broadcast it?