A healthy person has a thousand wishes. Sick only one.
For now, my health is serving me. Certain health problems that I have do not seriously affect my way of life and my lifestyle and standard.
When I saw the topics that galenkp set for this week, with one I could share with you something from my life:
Are you happy with your life and do you feel there's room for improvement?
I consider myself a lucky person, if I don't think about some occasions that have been irreversibly damaged, for which there is no point in mourning, suffering and regretting that I didn't do something different... Considering the environment I live in, in a country that has suffered (and is still suffering) various summaries of the government that impoverished it more and more, I think I did as much as I could without falling into the trap of a comfortable life (which can be lived mostly only if you are involved in criminal and politics...).
I have a partner with whom I share my life, an apartment where we live, I have a job that I like to do, I am not sick...
But... I miss something that I had and now don't.
In the years before corona, in addition to summer vacation, tourist tours of European cities were mandatory. Four, five days in spring and four, five days in autumn.
When you add it up with the days of summer vacation, it comes to 20 days of pure enjoyment a year.
I remember that autumn of 2019, at the end of November when we were in Valencia, it was our last autumn holiday.
After that, the corona came, we accumulated fears, we were closed, we became alienated from society...
We forgot that we like to travel.
After the corona period, when everything started to recover (I purposely do not write - back to normal, because after the corona, little has returned to normal), unfortunately, the prices of tourist arrangements for those short-term trips also recovered. And that's exactly what they did.
It was no longer so easy to set aside half of the monthly income for a 4 or 5 day stay in a city.
We were planning a tour of Rome, but we gave up on that tri
The mid-range hotels we stayed in a few years before 2019 are incredibly expensive.
There is a little to our pampering. Before corona, we stayed in 4-star hotels, so now it's hard for us to decide on lower-quality accommodations (because with age, a person should arrange better, higher-quality things for himself, not the opposite).
And that's why we reduced our trips during the year, the last two, three years, to spring and summer trips.
The autumn trip has eluded us for years. Maybe the reason is the proximity of the Christmas and New Year holidays, when our finances are under more pressure, so we sacrifice travel for that reason?
But I want one thing.. I want the situation to return to the way it was before the corona, when we could plan our shorter trips much more relaxed during the year (because summer vacations also had a negative impact on our budget...).
I want to feel the pleasure of drinking a cappuccino in an Italian or French square while my face is caressed by the gentle autumn sun.. That, when summer is over, I wish to find myself under the walls of some fortified city in Spain... In autumn, I want to wander around German parks when the shades are leaves yellow and brown.
We need so little to fulfill those wishes and complete happiness - to allow our eyes to see live in autumn, what we now see on TV, on our souvenirs or calendar pictures...
This year, we missed the autumn trip again.
For next year, I'm starting a savings fund that will provide us with financial opportunity, and in my head I'm already preparing to accept the choice of cheaper accommodation.
All that remains is that our health continues to serve us and that we have the desire and will to travel as before the corona.
Maybe it will seem to someone that I am crazy, rude or spoiled, when in addition to two trips, I write that one more would make me happier, however, I am a person who finds happiness in small things, and what is one trip for 5 days, but a really small thing that we can afford.
