It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

Is that aa bad thing? coming from a introvert, but exploring the world is not a bad thing. Most things written just feel like someone too afraid of things to change. That could be a personal choice, but definitely should not be generalised. You learn different cultures, experience different worlds, get different perspectives, etc.

quoting from AVtar the las air bender (not sure if i remember verbatim, but i hope i am close)

You should learn from all nations, if you do not, your information gets old and stale Uncle Iroh

And I love Iroh, so heavily biased