Travel isn’t just fun and exciting (and occasionally harrowing), it can broaden your horizons and improve your life skills in surprising ways.
How are you supposed to make sense of your culture if you’ve never been outside of it? Really, anyone who thinks they’ve “made sense” of anything as dynamic and complicated as culture is fooling themselves.
There’s nothing like traveling for learning to deal with things going wrong. It seems like the train is really late but nope, you’re on the wrong platform and it’s long gone.