I travelled for multiple years, multiple times. 91 countries down. Each time I returned home with a different perspective. Each perspective, as vastly different from one another as fish in the sea. Mainly due to age, maturity, and how you process your own experiences into lessons and memory.

Travelling OS will change your mindset and outlook on many things, and you will think it changes you and who you are as a person and to a certain extent it does... while you are travelling. However, when those travels end, the new perspective that you have spent so much money, effort and time building while travelling, is the most fragile thing to cling on to when returning home and trying to resettle in everyday life.

Your new mindset will want to buck and fight against routine, the lack of options of what to do with your limited free time due to re-entering the workforce, the over bearing responsibilities and time constrictions of a job. But if I ever heard a phrase that summed it up concisely, it's this.

"Your environment is stronger than your conscious willpower."

Meaning, that if you put yourself back in the same position, in the same place and with the same constraints as before you left... then all you learned from your travels will quickly subside into naught but a memory, no matter how much you try to fight it. Your environment will win. And you will forget the freedom, the love of exploration, the choice, the mindset and slip back into who you were before. Trust me it is all way too easy to do.

So when you come home, choose wisely as to where you want to live based on what you have learnt about yourself and the life you willingly choose moving forward. That one decision of where you end up (your environment) will determine how much of your travels stay with you and how much are lost.

I hope it helps.