‘I Love Going On Dates While I’m Travelling Because They’re So Non-Committal’
If you haven’t completed 113 days of solitude while reading On The Road with one eye and A Year In Provence with the other, are you even a traveller?
Put another way: do you get more out of travelling when you do it solo?
Though the cliché answer to this is: “yes,” and though it’s true that you generally experience more personal growth solo backpacking South America than you do splashing around in Mykonos with a long term partner, many solo travel junkies overstate the importance of hiking and suffering.
LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS:
Stop dating while you’re healing.
Heal first, then date.— AGAR
and 99 others (@travelling_afro) May 1, 2019
Which brings us to the following jumble of pixels and audio. In the video you’re about to watch, TikTok user @kittystarchild, also known as Catherine, takes (polite) aim at a TikTok trend which basically says you shouldn’t date while you travel.
In response to a video making said claim, Catherine says: “I strongly disagree. No hate to the creator – not everyone has impeccable compartmentalization skills like I do… But I love going on dates when I’m travelling because they’re so non-committal.”
She continues: “You literally just go, you hang out with people that you think are cool and then if you get their contact information then alright maybe you hang out again in the future.”
“But most of the time you don’t and it’s just like these small moments of human interaction that I love. I absolutely love. So do go on dates when you’re travelling. I highly recommend it.”
Twitter is also full of travellers’ thoughts on this conundrum, some of which you can read below.
pro to dating while travelling: you can literally just leave their country when u break up and then u never have to deal w them again
con: sometimes you want to have to deal with them again— vanilla spice (@kyathecreator) March 28, 2020
Need a confidence boost?
Switch on your dating apps while travelling via national train and just let people ping n msg u and then delete it afterwards.
It doesn’t need to get much more complicated than that. Plus, you’re STI free. pic.twitter.com/3vpljsovz9
— James Joseph Boyle (he/him) (@jamesjoeboyle) July 19, 2019
Using Tinder to ask for directions and recommendations while travelling is my new favourite thing! #AznEsc2k14
— Brandon Sousa (@brandon_sousa) March 14, 2014
Further tips for dating while you are travelling include smiling at people, taking day trips, going to trendy bars, taking cooking classes, asking for directions, finding expat groups on Facebook, using dating apps and going on walking tours. In other words: more or less the same things you might do to try and meet people in your home city.
There you have it – philosophy to think about.
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