Travellers vs. tourists

     Most of the times that I have travelled I have always felt like a tourist because we just go to places to entertain ourselves or to have fun but we don't really think about where are we going or what we are getting out of it. We are just thinking that we have to go there because everybody goes there or because we want to have fun in a different way. In my opinion this is mainly what a tourist would do but a traveler is much more different, a traveler goes to a place with a specific purpose. A traveler wants to learn something from this place or he or she is going and be a part of this place and of its culture. The traveler does not want to have fun or entertain himself or herself but wants to acquire something of this place. A traveler goes to a place with a mission that may or may not be accomplished in the trip. A traveler wants to see the world and its culture and be a part of it. In the future I hope and I want to be a traveler and see the world as a traveler not a tourist.