Travel

Today's trivia: A book called Stray Leaves from Japanese Papers consisted of 400 pieces of antiseptic toilet paper, for use in emergencies while travelling.

Travel broadens the mind.
Feel free to disagree with that statement.

Travel broadens the mind if you try to broaden it. If your idea of travel is to stay in a hotel from a US chain, eat in their restaurant, treat your surroundings as obstacles to the places you want to go, spend all your time shopping, and wish the locals could talk properly, then you might as well have stayed home. The most you got out of your holiday was warmer weather.
When you travel, go out. Learn a few words, and let the locals teach you how to say them properly. Tour the museums and the galleries. Try the local foods. Step a little ways away from the beaten track.
Is it dangerous? Probably. So's your home city. There's lots of safe places to travel to, where you can learn a little. Find one.