I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone

"I don’t think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn’t love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me." Thus spoke Candice Accola, and in her words shines the eternal truth that relationships are bound not only by affection, but by shared vision and shared journey. For to love another deeply is not merely to stand beside them, but to walk together, to experience the world as one, to find joy in the same wonders. A bond that does not share what one holds most sacred can never be truly whole.

The ancients understood this well. Did not Odysseus and Penelope remain bound not only by love but by their shared longing for Ithaca, their home and their common destiny? And did not Antony and Cleopatra, drawn across seas and kingdoms, find their passion magnified by shared adventure? Love grows where souls delight in the same horizons. When one heart craves the road and the other clings to stillness, they move not in harmony but in discord. Accola speaks what the ancients knew: that travel and discovery bind companions more tightly than ease and comfort ever could.

Her mention of new foods is no accident. To break bread together, to taste the unfamiliar, to share in the flavors of foreign lands, is to enter into a communion deeper than words. Across history, treaties have been sealed by feasts, friendships by meals, and marriages by shared tables. When Marco Polo returned from the East with spices and tales of strange dishes, he brought not only goods but the chance for cultures to share in one another’s lives. To eat together what is new is to celebrate curiosity, openness, and the courage to embrace the unknown.

So too have great partnerships in history been shaped by shared journeys. Consider the explorers Lewis and Clark, who faced wilderness and danger side by side. Their bond was forged not in idle comfort, but in their common pursuit of discovery. Or recall the story of John and Abigail Adams, who, though often separated by oceans, were united in their letters by a shared passion for ideas, for freedom, for growth. Without shared vision, even the strongest affection falters. With it, even distance cannot break the tie.

Children of tomorrow, take heed of this wisdom: if you would build a genuine relationship, seek one who delights in what you hold most dear. If your soul burns for travel, find one who will walk the road with you. If your heart hungers for new foods, find one who will sit at the table of adventure with you. Love is not only the meeting of bodies, but the harmony of spirits, the joining of longings, the sharing of life’s greatest joys.

Practical action lies before you. When you seek companions, do not look only to beauty or charm, but to whether your journeys may be shared. Invite those close to you into your passions: take them on the road, let them taste what you taste, let them see what you see. And if you find one who refuses all that stirs your soul, know that the bond may not be true. Better to wait for the one who walks beside you than to bind yourself to one who walks away.

Thus the lesson is clear: relationships are nourished by shared experience. To journey together, to taste together, to discover together—these are the pillars of lasting love. Candice Accola’s words remind us that the deepest bonds are not formed in stillness, but in movement, not in the safe and familiar, but in the daring embrace of the new. Choose your companions wisely, and let them be those who share in your roads, your meals, your dreams. Only then will love become a journey worth taking.