Needless to go round and round…everything that happened in the first half of this 2020 (Leap Year, Funeral Year) has deeply marked us and, in a more or less conscious way, will condition the way we live and look at life.
There are those who consider it all unnecessary and outdated scaremongering, those who fear the proximity or presence of the other, those who cannot leave the “safety” of the domestic walls…
Now we are in the summer and the urge to regain ancient (and so far taken for granted) freedoms comes back very strongly but, how to behave?
Since with this “unwelcome guest” we must learn to live with (which means reorganizing our lives by including its presence) even vacations must take this into account: vacations as a time of freedom from work commitments but also as a time of “emptiness” (after all, the word comes from Latin vacans=vacuum) to learn to cope with and accept immersing ourselves in, with the inevitable sense of disorientation and vertigo that comes with it.
Beyond all the cloying rhetoric that has accompanied this pandemic period, this is also an occasion (accomplices being canceled flights, inability to go abroad, ban on gatherings, etc., etc.) of a downsizing of the very concepts of relaxation, fun, sightseeing and even smart vacation.
A gap that allows us to carve out vacations based on our measurements and not the latest fashion statement!
