WHAT I HAVE EXPERIENCED THANK TO COUCHSURFING - Many great, wonderful guests. - A lot of good, interesting, educating chats around my or my hosts kitchen table. - My son has practiced English - And he has had a lot of good moments playing with our guests - I have experienced that couchsurfers are one of the best "villages" to raise my son :) - my world has broadened - new perspectives, ideas, tastes, attitudes, knowledge about different countries and places - I am more convinced than ever before that a) there are so many great people b) I want to travel (more, if possible) c) I like guests a lot, so does my son WHAT KIND OF POTENTIAL DO I SEE - even more great guests - to see different ways of living, hear about lifehacks, learn how to live according to my needs and values - to live (more) according to degrowth principles - do less, live more, be more connected and less busy in an unhealthy way - to make travelling more affordable - ... and more of a project of visiting friends - I see it as a good, grassroot level tool for slow and good travelling and living in general - I am into the world of opened doors and opened hearts - so the tendency that we seem to visit friends less and less (at least it seems so in my social surroundings) frustrates me. I want my home to be warm and friendly space where good people are always welcome - so CS is a practical tool to live in the warmer and more welcoming bubble... and to make the bubble bigger 🙃 *** I want a lot from life and I have really got a lot. In exchange, I think, I have a lot to give to the world and people around me as well. The life is about getting and giving - that is how I see it.