A new study suggests that people prefer to travel South.

Real-world experiences underlie avoidance of northern routes, Brunyé proposes. Young children learn that as objects and locations get higher, they become harder to attain. Examples include reaching for a toy on the counter, climbing the stairs and jumping.

An ingrained notion that “up is difficult” then gets applied to other situations. When someone imagines traversing a northern and a southern path, the northern way feels higher and more physically demanding, Brunyé suggests.

Of course, where the esteemed academics described an innate desire to travel “south”, they specifically meant ‘Cape Town”.

Here on the Southernmost tip of the African continent (please, let’s NOT split hairs), the reasons for this might seem obvious. Seth, for example, might reasonably suggest that it is the unexplainable magnetic power of the “Radlantic” is the main predicator of this alleged “Southern Bias”. Maybe it’s our torrid winter.

Others may argue that the readers of this very blog, the Vibers, are inherently attractive.

All of this may be true, but it’s my sincere belief that humankind’s desire to travel in a Cape Town-bound direction is this, and this alone:

Boom. All of it together.

Remember folks, Winter Equinox is already passed. It’s only a matter of time before the muted summer that we call “winter” is on its bike.

Happy Monday.

[Source : Science News]