Culture shock...returning home

After traveling for six months and living on an island classified as the 'Wild West' for a seventh, it can be quite strange when you get back to your old 'everyday' life. Everyone has their own version of home, and currently for us our home base is in Los Angeles, a city full of beauty, attitude, pretentiousness, and of course traffic! Every time you go to a new country it's about learning the new cultural ways and the same thing applies when you go back home. What was important to you before you left may be completely different than your views when you return.

While we were traveling we found we really cut back on the notions of 'needs'. Having that new shirt or pair of shoes became obsolete and it becomes more about the next experience. It's also a great eye opener to see how entire countries and cultures can get by with so little yet still be happier than many people in the States who have 'everything'. It really becomes a culture shock to come 'home'.

I certainly don't want this to come off as a negative view on Los Angeles or the United States, but more of an eye opener of how we can start to become happy with less in our lives. This can also help in daily relationships because you start looking for experiences with people opposed to spending money on having designer furniture and clothes. This, by the way is a great way to save money as well!

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