Travel doesn’t always turn out the way you hope it will.
If you are miserable and unfulfilled, then you will be miserable and unfulfilled on a beach in Thailand.
And yet, you and I, and our fellow travelers, will speak in superlatives about every trip.
The White Lotus / Max
It was amazing; it changed my life; it was anincredibleexperience.
So, you lie: it was amazing; it changed your life; it was anincredibleexperience.
But you are still yourself.
If any of that struck a chord, then these six moments fromThe White Lotuswill be painfully relatable.
But Laurie and her longtime friends, Kate and Jaclyn, are clearly more complicated than they seem.
Kate and Jaclyn endlessly shower each other with insincere, hyperbolic compliments that suggest jealousy or at least insecurity.
Its no wonder that Laurie ends the night sobbing in her room.
A big, fancy resort cannot magically cure a toxic friendship.
Be less like Portia!
She imagines herself dressed like a movie star on a Vespa with a man in a slim fitting suit.
Then she accidentally swallows a bunch of bugs and her husband tries to murder her.
But theres a moral here, too.
Vacation fantasies are just that: Fantasies.
When you come in with too high expectations, you leave disappointed.
Traveling does not absolve you of yourself.
You will, however, tell everyone that your Hawaii trip changed your life.
