#358 Go on vacation by yourself
It is Christmas Eve 2008 and everyone I know is sitting at home in Sweden with their families watching Donald Duck and waiting for dinner. The candles are lit, the Christmas tree is guarding the presents and the Christmas spirit is spreading like a virus through the living room.
I'm sitting in a hotel room with a green tube of Pringle crisps in one hand and a coke in the other watching Oprah Winfrey. All day the Egyptian waiters have been calling me "cousin" or "brother" and wondered where my wife is. I replied that I have no wife. Then they asked me where my girlfriend is. I replied that she’s back home in Sweden. They asked if we broke up. I replied that I’ve never been more in love with her. Then they turned to each other, looking like question marks.
When the bus drove its load of charter tourists from the airport I saw my fellow passengers looking at me inquiringly. The cleaner in my room as well. Police men on patrol and kiosk owners asked themselves the same question: Was I a pedophile or psychopath? I replied that I was a cheerful 25 year-old guy who’s girlfriend is okay with him leaving two weeks every year to read books, and to let go of all the prestige and expectations.
Text: Navid Modiri
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I did this and it was greeeeatttt you get to see and do what you want to do, not take a vote on everything with the girlfreind. Not to sound selfish but sometimes you need a vacation from everything and everyone. I think people should look into 1 vacation alone and 1 vacation togather a year if you can with out damaging your relationship of course.
I concur with the previous poster who advocates one vacation alone and one with family per year. I think the vacation alone can be a very meditative experience allowing us to be a better person in our other relationships and simply more fun on our together vacations.
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