Beating To This Marvelous Village Drum.

A new calmness.

It dawned on me today that life and my perception of it has changed. Magically, wonderfully and irreversibly. Yeah! I was privy to the other end of a phone call ( with those smartphones nothing stays private ) and thus worked out the gist of it. A holiday being planned. A mini break to be precise...two whole days.

Two days in Eisenberg for a pair from Vienna in fact. Two days into which they are planning to cram as many activities as one can imagine and frankly, we wouldn't do that much in a year. Cycling tour here, eating out there, visiting two or three towns in between and viewing anything resembling an opportunity to cement it digitally in eternity for all to see. Yikes, just listening to it made me tired. Big city folks are so used to rushing here and there whilst doing a thousand chores ( shown off on Instagram of course ) that that is their pace of life. The fast lane.
The get-old-before-your-time lane and the lane where only destinations counts and not the journey to them.

That used to be us ( not so much the digital side ) before we moved here. The perception of having to do and see everything no matter how you cram it into the 24 units of opportunity we get given daily. Well, not anymore. The more I was listening to this phone conversation and the various plans being bandied about, the more I thought about what I would do with two days of leave.

A nice long walk, a leisurely breakfast followed by a semi-snooze on the sun-lounger interspersed with several pages of a good book and the odd glances up into the divine blue nebulous free yonder for a bit of wool gathering. Lunch would almost be a repeat on the sun-lounger but this time with a nice chilled glass of local wine while doing the most important part of a holiday...taking stock of life's bounties and being glad to sit and contemplate the sheer beauty of life, a slow life with priorities attainable, comfortable and wearable.

We can't do it all no matter how hard we try and once we realize that the beauty of life is in the detail, than everything slots into place and life begins to unfold its awesomeness...

Biggi