Brother Mao has always thought one saying is particularly ridiculous:

"Travel while you're young."
He even feels it’s just some motivational鸡汤 travel bloggers made up to get you to spend money, basically brainwashing you to hit their targets.
Only in recent years has he realized there are some facts we have to acknowledge.
It’s not really about having more or less money—it’s about your body.
If you think the biggest barrier to travel is budget,
that’s not really it either. The real barrier might just be your legs.
Why do I say that? For example, when you’re twenty, when you’re young,
you can sit on a hard seat for over twenty hours, get off the train, and still walk 30,000 steps without a problem.
No problem at all.
Sharing a room with a dozen people in a youth hostel, chatting until 3 a.m., and still getting up at 6 a.m. the next day to watch the sunrise.
Or eating at street stalls, sleeping at the train station! Even getting caught in the rain—
that’s travel.
What about after 35, after 40?
You might want hotels to be more and more upscale,
plane tickets more and more expensive, because you want a better experience.
Restaurants need to be more and more refined.
But people get more and more tired, physical strength drops noticeably.
For example, you can’t sleep well, your lower back starts hurting. Your stomach gets picky.
When you walk for several hours straight, what’s on your mind might not be the scenery anymore, but where you can sit down and rest.
Maybe some people would say:
As you get older, travel has more depth—you see things differently, you think about things differently.
I agree with that too.
But depth might not be a substitute for breadth.
You can understand history better, architecture better, art better.
But if your body no longer supports you climbing that mountain, walking down that street, or climbing those stairs,
then all that understanding might just stay on the map.
We always talk about delayed gratification, planning for the future.
But there’s one thing that probably shouldn’t be postponed forever.
Don’t always think about saving money today for a richer, more comfortable life later.
Later on, you might not have the same body you have today.
Maybe a lot of people start saving in their twenties and thirties, hoping to travel the world in their forties,
but forget that the body at forty can never buy back the legs you had at twenty.
The biggest depreciating asset in life might not be a car or a house—
it might just be your body.
Making money is certainly important.
But don’t leave all your experiences for the future!
Sometimes the biggest risk of the future might not be not having money,
but when you finally have time and money, your body no longer wants to go.
What does everyone think about this?