this can be as well defined as the length of a piece of string.
There was a cartoon on the memes and jokes thread that while amusing, got me thinking.
Everyone’s idea of contentment is very different. Some people are quite happy to sit about drinking alcohol. Some people are quite happy to be on the go all the time walking and running. Some people are quite happy to be outdoors, rain or shine. Some people are quite happy to curl up inside and lose a day to a book.
As long as you’re content*, then that’s you living a life fully lived.
*NB content is different from happy. There’s no pressure on anyone to be happy. It would be great if everyone was, all of the time, but we can thank Inside Out for reminding us that it’s ok to let Sadness take the wheel sometimes.
That’s as losely defined as a fully lived life!! Fun is just what pleases you.
You are on vacation. If you spend your vacation rushing around doing things you feel like you should probably do and get home feeling vaguely harassed then that is a bad vacation. Plus two weeks in one city is a long time! As a Torontonian I would tell somebody that that’s probably more time than you need in Toronto. So if you do one week of doing things and one week of 30 Rock I feel you’ve wisely used your time.
I once went to visit a friend who lived in Washington and we spent the better part of the weekend watching a Mythbusters marathon.
I’ve done quite a bit of traveling, and my favorite part is always just walking the streets and exploring the neighborhoods. In Paris, I didn’t even go to the Louvre because I was just “museumed out” after a month touring Europe and going to SO many museums. Enjoy your binge watching and Hortons.
I think for sure, you’ve DONE Toronto. You do you! And if you need a break from being the tourist, skip Niagara, hang out in your apartment, order in pizza (if you like pizza - DO NOT GET PIZZA PIZZA) and watch your show. Unless you lose a bunch of money by cancelling?
I had always travelled alone until my current situation with the partner and kid. And I had to because nobody wanted to travel with me. I was the only traveler in my circle of peeps - and I did travel. I travelled a lot! It’s never going to be perfect, and when you are alone it’s hard sometimes! But you have your friends here! When I did my travelling, there was only handwritten letters and then on my last long trip, finally email. It took awhile to mitigate my feelings of feeling lonely AND feeling like I had to have the best time, all the time.
Just do what feels right! And you are going to be in WDW in four days! Very excited for you!
My girlfriend lives in Albany, NY, and I live in Pittsburgh. We get together a couple of times a year in NYC for a long weekend. Our last trip, we stayed inside the hotel and spent all day Saturday just bingeing The Great British Bake-Off. And it was perfect!
Just watched HEA. It was filmed from multiple viewpoints in 8K. The big screen TV in the apartment is big and 4K (somewhat outclassing my TV at home).
Anyhoo, the quality is mindblowing. I saw things I’ve never seen or appreciated before. And I didn’t know that they edited HEA to fit the new castle decorations.
It’s a struggle sometimes to know when to push yourself to try something or do something or whether to just let yourself be comfortable and safe. The trick is finding your ideal ratio, I think. No one else gets to decide for you. You’ve done a lot already on this trip.
“In general, people are considered fully vaccinated… COVID-19 vaccines that have been listed for emergency use by the World Health Organization (such as AstraZeneca/Oxford).”
The part I don’t like about bus tours is that you only get to go where the tour takes you, and not make your own meandering decisions. Part of being in a place is just soaking it in. Sitting in your fancy view apartment and watching TV fits that bill. Two weeks is a long time to be in any city that isn’t your own. There are zero things wrong with doing nothing as many days as you want to at this point.
My sister and I did a long trip backpacking through Europe and also found ourselves somewhat bored of museums and churches after a couple of weeks. Paris was also our last stop. We picked a short, maybe even 1-2 hours short, tour of the Louvre to hit the “highlights” and that was totally enough.
It’s fun to start saying no to things that seem like a chore. I pretty much say no to anything that involves going anywhere in the summer unless I REALLY want to go. I sent my daughter camping with all of our best pals and I stayed home this time. I finally felt better using CPAP and I wasn’t ready to feel like crap again. I’ve also had enough of camping in the woods Now if you’re camping near the ocean count me in! I stayed home and read, walked and swam…the same as every other day. It was nice. WDW still made me so glad to be there! There was less to do when we went in June but we still got what we needed from it. I would have liked to have seen fireworks, Cirque du Soleil and done WAT but we didn’t feel like we had a less than experience. We are the same ones who rode SDD then went back for a swim b/c HS was hot and crowded and we didn’t want to! i loved being there and being with my kid so much!!! I am also thinking of a solo trip just because I want to someday. Plus the point of Toronto was to get to WDW. The apartment is awesome and the views are great!
I love every single bit of this thought download! I’ve recently been researching a personality tool called Human Design that is sucking me into a deep rabbit hole in the best way. I was looking at the chart for one of my kids and it said “you have a natural sense of rhythms and rituals, deviating from them can be physically, mentally, and emotionally destabilizing for you. Don’t question your natural routines of rhythm, or let others lure you away from them.” It is so spot on for him it took my breath away when I read it. It’s stuff like this that helps me to understand my people better and have more compassion and love to accept them just as they are. You do you. There is no one, especially not society at large, that needs any explanation as to why you choose to do one thing over another. Disney is your place. The familiar and comfortable is still there. The cast members are as amazing as ever, Main Street still smells like fresh air mixed with cookies and newly brewed coffee, and the Peoplemover still moves people. The idea of switching out DLP for WDW in June is a great one! You should totally do it.
