Time is our most precious resource, and I like to use mine to travel. Seeing other parts of our planet makes me feel connected to it, to our species, and to all the amazing life that lives here.

I still wonder how much it would change the course of our world if every human being went up to a space station to view the Earth, as a field trip. Maybe once when you are ten, again when you’re thirty, and a last time when you’re seventy. The numbers are arbitrary, but it would almost serve as a check-in for us.

We’re all part of one complicated, beautiful system. Travel, displacing one’s self from normalcy and comfort, enables you to see that.