Like many folks we enjoy going on vacation… truthfully, in our family, it is hubby who is the better traveller… I put that down to his Aries Moon, (action, movement, needing stimuli) and my Taurus moon, (stability, comfort, difficulty in accepting change). Despite our differences, I am grateful that hubby has that itch to travel… :)
Travel is stressful, and these days, flying seems to be a test for our blood pressure and ability to keep our opinions to ourselves… Facial recognition is now in full use, along with printing ones own boarding pass and checking in ones bags… Soon, it would seem that most human jobs at airports will be replaced with machines… Technology is good, but I am not so sure about taking away all of the human aspects… after all, humans are meant to interact with one another. However, stress of flying aside, we can learn about how we view our lives when we expose ourselves to how others are living theirs.
While in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, staying in an Air B and B… we lived as we would at home, going to the grocery store, (Walmart) etc, walking the streets, and watching the people… Folks would put used clothing and other items out in the late afternoon, beside a garbage can, a little while later, others would find the items and take them away with them, eliminating them from going to the dump, and enabling someone who needed the items to use them. And while life ha it’s many challenges for the locals, for the most part people went about the day in a happy frame of mind…
And most recently, while on an 11 day cruise, (one delayed by C19 mandates, and which was a long time coming, to celebrate 3 mile stones)… we were once again reminded of our blessings… Sure, we have challenges, and like so many out there, the last 3 years have been very trying…. however, when we listened to the stories of the staff upon the ship, it became apparent, once again, that God really does only burden one with what we can handle… Spending 9 months away from family, cleaning up after strangers over and over again, all the while smiling, being patient and so polite… takes a certain kind of courage and entails family sacrifice…
We are grateful to have been able to travel, so we can grow as humans, and we hope and pray that it will be God’s Will that we will be able to continue to do so…
Serenity's Gift Cove (sgc) 