Traveling the World Looking at Yourself

Lexie's “Pro travel tip: Never leave home without your sense of humor” Is this really humurous? I mean it is, but you make these with your best friends, you don't share it on social media with the world. It is a coarse joke and not becoming of a young woman. Sorry for being judgemental. Yeah, that's who I am.

Wise words from Lexie: “You could have the sweetest, juiciest peach in the world. And there will still be someone who doesn't like peaches” This is under a fully exposed ass photo. So how are we supposed to interpret it?

When I saw these photos, I found myself asking “Doesn't this girl have parents?”
    Then I asked more questions to myself: Am I just too conservative, too old-fashioned? Am I being over-critical? What harm does it do me? If it doesn't do any harm, why should I bother? Bother her or be bothered myself? Am I too judgemental? She is just having fun. She is young and quite attractive, it is normal.
    Or is it? Is this the world we want to live in? Are these the things we'd like to promote?
   "Oh, you are old and you simply do not get it. And yes, you are old-fashioned."
    "Ok, I accept the 'accusation', I want to keep my old-fashioned ways, thank you."

I really find it difficult to grasp that her parents do not give a word of advice to this girl. I mean it's fine with me if they are fine with their daughter going for fame with half-naked photos in Baobab Avenue or holding seashells to her vagina, or exposing her legs and ass all over Instagram. I have a daughter, so I shouldn't talk big, I don't know what I'd be doing if my daughter turned out to be such a woman. I mean I know of course, I certainly wouldn't approve. However, I also know that I would let her be herself. I have had enough of my mother trying to leash me. On the other hand, I know that I'd probably hug a stone in my bosom and cut my ties with her if she didn't heed my words and our interaction became a zone of constant conflict. There is no reason why people with very different values and no respect for each other should keep a bond. It's sad but it happens.

I am cautious to judge Lexie with the yardstick of my years, she is too young to know much about the world or life. But her parents are supposed to know better, I'd suppose. That's why I find it difficult to understand how and why Lexie's parents support her. I wish there was an interview with them. Because it's not only their saying or not saying anything to such photos, I believe - I mean I may be wrong of course, but I believe there is strong reason to think that they are financing Lexie for this goal. Perhaps they plan/expect it to pay back; after all, they have a travel agency and their daughter is going to hold a Guinness Record.

No, sorry, I do not believe it when Lexie claims she works three jobs to pay for her travels. Call me a cynic, but I don't. How much can one be making out of picking up tourists from airports and guiding? Plus, in between all the rush of travel plans and traveling to every country. I believe her parents are financing her travels, for the most part if not in full. That she pays for her travels is total bullshit even if she might not be spending too much. I realize this is my personal issue. I have an issue because I have not been able to monetize all my efforts. I have not been able to make a cent. I know, it's mostly because I do not want to sell out my soul and become a peg in this cogwheel of travel industry. I cannot stand it.
    Yet, I want to make money, I want to have a place in this world, I want to have feedback on my posts on social media. Well, actually I'm not sure if I really want that last one. I cannot deal with people. The less in my life, the better it is. Still... I need some recognition.

Okay, I was glad to come across these posts to see I'm not the only one. When I saw these photos I thought to myself: “Who on earth and why would anyone give photos in a bikini in the Avenue of the Baobabs?” I mean it is one thing she publishes bikini photos by the sea, by the pool or in a waterfall, but this is really something! You don't go to the Avenue of the Baobabs in swim attire. Sorry but Lexie is not traveling the world, she is just promoting herself as a model around the world

Perhaps what bothers me about Lexie is her motto on the main-page of her website.
    “How can you change the world if you haven't seen it?”
    This girl is definitely not seeing the world; she is not even looking at the world, let alone see it.
    Because in order to see, you need to look first. And she is just looking at herself. Yeah, I'm not sure if she sees herself much either. Beyond the physical that is...

I am sort of blind. I do not see things around me. I am one of those people who looks but doesn't see. A friend may pass by me, I may even be looking at her, I may not see. So if I pass you by and don't say “Ciao” it's not because I'm ignoring you, it's only because I was noticing other small details in the surroundings. That's my trait. I see conceptual details, I look behind the physical.

Yeah yeah, it's never been about that. And what have you, what has she understood after all this travelling I wonder

I was going to title this piece “Lexie and Parents”, then I decided to change it. Because this annoys me more because it is associated with travel: This girl is not traveling the world, she is just going around the world holding a magnifying mirror in hand and looking at herself. She is just looking at herself, capturing images of herself and admiring herself in different backgrounds. She is by no means the only one, but she is a prime example. And she is soon going to be the youngest person to travel to every country.

I cry for the massacring of the spirit of travel.