I am a master at finding the silver lining. It's actually grand. I de-attach from things quite easily. A bit annoying as I'm not flush with cash to replace some stuff, but, meh, life goes on. Most annoyingly I forgot my maraca which was to be a gift. Although I am like a travelling squirrel and no sooner do I leave one cache of nuts hidden in the floor of one Atlantic rainforest than I am soon to be reunited with another cache of nuts in a different European forest, a beech forest for example. Until I do though I'm getting by on one jumper and one pair of trousers and just praying winter doesn't get here early as all my scarves and jumpers are half way up the country in a mates mum's garage.
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That sounds really wonderful :) I'm always a little envious of travellers, but in the end, I'm a homebody through and through LoL
Hopefully the cold holds off long enough! :)
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I'm not sure it's so wonderful! My parents moved to another country the moment I left the house at age 17 and my siblings are fragmented and resentful and don't like helping each other out. It would be quite nice to have a stable home base that I could always chuck a cardboard box in the attic if I was travelling away for a bit, instead it's a constant shedding reshedding of things and having to seek help with people who really shouldn't have to help out. I would love to have a stable home that I could keep treasured books in and so on, but most millenials just don't have the option of buying their own place. Maybe I'll save up and buy a small patch of land to stick a yurt on, I don't have high expectations!
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I know what that's like, we moved so much when I was a kid, never in a school more than two years before we were moving again. It kind of sucks. But I've gathered my stuff enough now that I have it all with me, my husband and I have become the stable home I always wanted ;p
And yes a patch of land is a great idea!!! You can grow food too! :)
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Yurp! I might even buy a patch of land in Brazil!!! Things grow really well there!
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That would be beautiful! :)
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Absolutely. I just spent 2 years living in Paraty, totally fell in love with the place.
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Wow I bet you did! Right on the coast like that, it must be amazing :)
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Where to begin - it is a wonderful place. Rainforest covered mountains running down to a coastline with various types fo beaches strung along it (many good for surfing). A lovely climate, a bit of rain but nothing an Irish person can't scorn at. Quite a strong hippy community, quite cosmopolitan middle class city folk who've abandonned city life to live slow-paced humble lives in a natural environment. Also all sorts of traditional communities , caiçaras, quilombolas, indians, rural peasants, all with their own cultural identities and struggles. As it's a tourism hot spot there's a steady supply of cultural activites. Maybe not like london or São Paulo, but for me was more than satisfactory. Of course it's not a place without it's problems, but at least there is actually quite a sophisticated and well-articulated dialogue of struggle and resistance in the face of government under-funding and aggressive land speculation among various sectors of society. There's all sorts of hippy sort of initiatives, for example the solidarity economy is really starting to kick off in the face of the deepening economic crisis. And there's really strong communities of people seeking spirituality. All the conventional churches (some I'm not so keen on I'll profess), but also Candomblé, and contemporary shamanism, and Santo daime. Ayahuasca has been having a steadily increasing influence in forming a community of people who understand that each person has to quieten their own inner struggle, whilst at the same time being there for each other. "Estamos juntos" [we're all together] is what they say.
I really like it. :)
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