Not once in my life anyone asked my name, what I vote for and only in rare occasions my name. I am totally fine with that. I learned at a very young age that there are three topics one can better avoid talking about: politics, religion and sports.
Both my grandparents didn't became old either not even 60 and as I recently looked at the ancestors some did not even reach the age of 34.
For sure both were unhappy, one with the wife and the daughter marrying a foreigner, the other felt the same and spent his life in the Dutch army overseas, without being liked for a second. No matter how you take it these were their lives and both could have changed it (that is after the second world war after surviving the concentration camps). I could easily say (and for a part it is true) that they did infect me since their screwed up kids made my life miserable as well. But does this help me forwards? No. Staying away was the best.
If it comes to left...today left is the new right, same attitude. If it comes to it nothing changed.
It sounds exhausting if you fear for getting robbed. I am afraid that happens everywhere, in hospitals, public transport, shops, swimming pool,at school and at work. I never take new or precious items along with me, no matter where I go.
P.s. there's a very good reason why we have hundreds of insurances and most people have way too many (and getting paid is a huge problem). 😕
I hope you are doing well.
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Who voted for which party is also a forbidden question here. And as I wrote above, we didn't talk about politics, God forbid. But it was just then that I realized how a person's political views shape not only their entire being, their way of life, their views and everything that permeates a simple conversation about the weather, if you will. This was an extremely strange experience for me too, I had never felt this way before and had never come to this insight before.
Our ancestors... this is such a long and heavy topic. A very sad and hopeless one at that, because... they affect our entire lives, no matter how much we deny it, or how much we run away from it. I also stay away, but that doesn't mean I can prevent the things that follow from my family history. I have thought about how miserable lives people in the former communist republics had (the left is the new right, you are so right, since the children of the former leaders of the far left party are today the founders of the new right parties). At the same time, I know what people in the West experienced with their active participation in the First and Second World Wars. All this is passed on to their children and grandchildren, it's inevitable. And we all lead and will lead miserable lives, whether in the East or the West, in fact, miserable in a very different way, because... can't it be otherwise? Because that's the plan? Because the trauma is passed on from generation to generation and there's no end to it...
Thank you for the wishes 🤗❤️👼