Taking a rest
It has been nine months now.
As much as this blog was needed in getting through this challenge, as little I felt like posting the past month. Maybe I did not feel like writing about my health, neither about my life in general. Some of the regular readers assumed out of this that I must feel very well. Yes I do actually.
On the other hand, after the challenging year behind me, I fell in a bit of a lazy mode. Going on "standby" and take a deep breath. I need vacation, and actually I have just been on a short hopp to Budapest and Bratislava two weeks back. But I have plans for the next year and particularly for vacation - I just have to convince one of my friends to join me. I am working on it.
It is Christmas. I never liked it, but feeling better than in the past years at this time I can see the peace in the festival at least - but also the boredom. But Christmas (or maybe just the Winter) made me also reflect once more on what a priviledged life I have living in the Western world. I read the news online on a snowy day and see how people get outraged, just because public transport slows down by 10 minutes and road traffic collapses for a few hours. People complain about the life in Berne, as they consider the city as too dirty. I am really, very honestly happy for all them, that they obviously have no bigger sorrows. But who am I to patronize them, just because I have been living next door to a slum (and a five star hotel on the other side) for a year and have been traveling every day on a local train, that has a death toll of ten on its network - every day!
I bumped into an old friend on my lunch break the other day. We had not talked in 6 years to each other. I invited her for a coffee. We were discussing about relationships, the right person, monogamy.
She does not require a marriage to gain a minimum social status (or even more security). That makes her quite an exclusive woman compared to the overwhelming majority of women in the world. We should not forget, the idea of getting married simply for the sake of love is quite a new one. Not older than a hundred years and only successful in the Western world.
She felt overwhelmed with the wide range of possibilities that she has and the decisions in front of her. BUt some questions are never answered, I think. We just stop after a while putting them up.
As much as this blog was needed in getting through this challenge, as little I felt like posting the past month. Maybe I did not feel like writing about my health, neither about my life in general. Some of the regular readers assumed out of this that I must feel very well. Yes I do actually.
On the other hand, after the challenging year behind me, I fell in a bit of a lazy mode. Going on "standby" and take a deep breath. I need vacation, and actually I have just been on a short hopp to Budapest and Bratislava two weeks back. But I have plans for the next year and particularly for vacation - I just have to convince one of my friends to join me. I am working on it.
It is Christmas. I never liked it, but feeling better than in the past years at this time I can see the peace in the festival at least - but also the boredom. But Christmas (or maybe just the Winter) made me also reflect once more on what a priviledged life I have living in the Western world. I read the news online on a snowy day and see how people get outraged, just because public transport slows down by 10 minutes and road traffic collapses for a few hours. People complain about the life in Berne, as they consider the city as too dirty. I am really, very honestly happy for all them, that they obviously have no bigger sorrows. But who am I to patronize them, just because I have been living next door to a slum (and a five star hotel on the other side) for a year and have been traveling every day on a local train, that has a death toll of ten on its network - every day!
I bumped into an old friend on my lunch break the other day. We had not talked in 6 years to each other. I invited her for a coffee. We were discussing about relationships, the right person, monogamy.
She does not require a marriage to gain a minimum social status (or even more security). That makes her quite an exclusive woman compared to the overwhelming majority of women in the world. We should not forget, the idea of getting married simply for the sake of love is quite a new one. Not older than a hundred years and only successful in the Western world.
She felt overwhelmed with the wide range of possibilities that she has and the decisions in front of her. BUt some questions are never answered, I think. We just stop after a while putting them up.
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