When you first land in a new place, where you don’t speak the language, you’re probably going to make some mistakes. You’ll get in the wrong line at the airport. Queue on the wrong side of the escalator. Realize you’ve unintentionally broken etiquette or convention of some sort.

This disorientation is one of the best parts of travel. Like many acquired tastes, it won’t feel the best at the moment, of course—it feels confusing, surprising, and frustrating. But with some moments and some perspective, you’ll start to realize there was nothing wrong with the place, and nothing wrong with you. You just needed a second to grok what was happening.

As you start to understand why things are the way they are in a new place, and how it differs from what your assumptions were, and then you’ll appreciate it a lot more. You’ll become mindful of how you’ve been trained to think, and start to wonder what else you’d assumed that wasn’t true either.