The same holiday for 53 years!

I caught a segment on GM TV this morning as I was making a cup of coffee.  Three generations of this family had been back to the same room, in the same hotel, in the same town every year for 53 years!  They hired the same beach hut and sat on the same spot on the beach. 

Now I think that there is a huge value in habit and routine, it is a necessary part of life, but 53 years with no change?!?  Surely we have to find a balance between routine and new experiences?  We all get into a bit a of rut be it the way we work or what we do for breakfast.  Agony aunts and women’s magazines are constantly telling us to “Spice up our marriages” and whilst I don’ really think that is the way to approach it, we do need to keep fresh so that we have something fresh to offer.

The world around us is in flux, if we stand still, it just flows round us… Do we want to be the river or the boulder?

“All is flux, nothing stays still”   Heraclitus of Ephesus

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