Identity, Belongingness and Change: Travel as Metaphor

The reality today is that we are constantly confronting and experiencing change. People change jobs, homes and even hometowns and indeed, spouses and significant others. In the face of such change, perhaps we could look at travel as a metaphor for understanding and living life. Because it combines notions of constancy as well as change, it is essentially an individualistic endeavour and it throws into sharp relief questions about self and identity, as well as home and belongingness. These are issues thrown up in a world we have thus far recognized as diverse and changing, but one we must also recognize as that through which we travel and therefore is diverse and changing.