Saadi suggests that mere movement through space—whether literal travel or metaphorical progress—means nothing without conscious attention to what surrounds us. The real injury isn't wasted time but wasted potential for wisdom; you can cross continents and remain ignorant, which is worse than never leaving home. When a tourist scrolls through their phone on a train through Tuscany while a local villager notices how light falls differently in each season, the villager is the true traveler. Observation transforms experience into understanding, and understanding into the kind of knowledge that actually changes how we see the world.