THE TRUE VALUE OF AN EXPERIENCE Post lockdown I’m looking forward to quality time with loved ones & experiences. Local travel by train, dinners at small independent restaurants with friends, swims in lakes & the bracing British ocean, hiking trips, drawing/yoga classes & the like. I don't think I will come out of this wanting to shop. :) I will be excited to do things, to ramble & explore. What experiences are you most looking forward to? The below excerpt from @theschooloflifelondon made me realise how little time I spend reflecting on past adventures & how important it is to really take in experiences before jumping to the next: "We are hugely careless curators of our own pasts. We push the important scenes that have happened to us at the back of the cupboard of our minds and don’t particularly expect to see them ever again. But what if we were to alter the hierarchy of prestige a little and argue that regular immersion in our travel memories could be a critical part of what can sustain and console us – and not least, is perhaps the cheapest and most flexible form of entertainment. We should think it almost as prestigious to sit at home and reflect on a trip we once took to an island with our imaginations as to trek to the island with our cumbersome bodies. In our neglect of our memories, we are spoilt children, who squeeze only a portion of the pleasure from experiences and then toss them aside to seek new thrills. Part of why we feel the need for so many new experiences may simply be that we are so bad at absorbing the ones we have had." . . . #experiencesoverthings #lifemusings #whatdowevalue #valuingtime #travelappreciation (at Scotney Castle) https://www.instagram.com/p/CANqqnzn1Wm/?igshid=18xnvys3u3ju8
