There is this perception that if you are travelling for an extended period of time you must be running from something.
If you follow what is expected, you are considered to be healthy and normal, but if you pack up and seek something new, you are seen as strange.
It is true that some people who travel are running, but those who don’t travel run too, just in different ways.
Running is an inside thing. Running means we are not facing our emotional pain. We are trying to avoid it.
You can be married, settled in a home, have a good job, raise a family, and still be running. You may be running from your childhood wounds or some other trauma in your past.
A lot of people who grow up in dysfunctional families are eager to leave and think that by creating their own home they can erase the past and make everything perfect.