--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> I'm a big fan of being on vacation, and the mindset
> that one wears *while* on vacation. I wrote a whole
> book about it, called Road Trip Mind.
>
> You leave the house, hop in your car or on a plane,
> and all the old rules no longer apply. You're off to
> somewhere you've never really been before, with new
> people who have different customs than the ones you
> are used to, and who may even speak a different
> language. They're just not going to *act* the way
> that you expect them to, based on your life back home.
>
> And the thing is, because you're on vacation, somehow
> you *don't* expect them to act the way you're used to
> everyone in your everyday life acting. You are more
> tolerant, even curious. You look upon the people you
> meet and the ways they handle themselves almost as a
> tourist attraction, something to gaze at and ponder
> and hopefully learn from.
>
> I just moved to a tourist town on the beach in Spain.
> There are more interacting and conflicting lifestyles
> and customs here than any place I've ever lived. I
> mean, you've got straight people sitting next to the
> gayest people you've ever met in your life, having
> fairly pleasant conversations. You've got young kids
> drinking too much and partying loudly next to older
> people who would appreciate them keeping the volume
> down a little, but don't really demand that they do
> so because they're on vacation, and so are the kids,
> and different rules apply when you're on vacation.
>
> And you know what? In this tourist town by the sea
> you rarely see any cops. The reason is that they
> rarely need them here. People manage to police them-
> selves fairly well, IMO because many of them -- tourists
> or locals -- wear that "being on vacation" mindset, and
> are a little more forgiving than they might be if not
> on vacation.
>
> My advice? Think of Fairfield Life a little more as
> a vacation spot -- somewhere you got to get away from
> your everyday life. Don't try to bring that everyday
> life with you and impose it on others you meed. Instead,
> get into Road Trip Mind and open yourself to new exper-
> ience, new ways of doing things. You might learn some-
> thing from doing it, and you would almost certainly
> have more fun.
>
well said-- one of your best posts lately, in my opinion. I know
exactly that "on vacation" feeling you're talking about. Good on ya,
mate.:-)
