"It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are." - Alain de Botton
I'm spoiled. I live in Singapore where it's unbelievably easy to travel from.
I love Louis CK -- especially this bit above. He makes a valiant point that we've lost a sense of wonder for the miraculous things (i.e., flying and cell phones) that have become common place in our modern day world.
In a similar way, Alain de Botton explores some of the same mysteries in his book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work.
"We are now as imaginatively disconnected from the manufacture and distribution of our goods as we are practically in reach of them, a process of alienation which has stripped us of myriad of opportunities for wonder, gratitude and guilt." - Alain de Botton
