Posted by Rok at November 28th, 2007

it’s nice to be ‘home’. well, home, Europe I guess at this point. I flew from Barcelona to Budapest today and the plane flies directly over Slovenia. It was a beautiful sunny day so one could see all the way down since there were no clouds. After almost of a year and a half of not being home it’s a weird feeling of seeing it again from 30000 feet. I miss mountains, the valleys, the snowpeaks, the little mountain villages, the hiking… 25 years of living in a unique place like that is hard to replace by any western or tropical civilisation…

I’ve had a interesting conversation with my buddy Sanj the other day discussing if living abroad makes you learn things that you wouldn’t have learned otherwise. In my opinion it does. Not only you learn things you would not otherwise but you learn them at least 10 times faster. Not that I am implying to be a smartass 29-year old now. What I am trying to say is that I don’t feel it is natural for one to go through these experiences that fast. It makes one reach the mid-life crisis at a quarter-life crisis point in your life. Now, what would a solution be? Obviously, as my other smartass friend Robyn would say, suck it up and live on!! The idea I was toying with was a little more controversial if I may call it that way. What if one decides to erase the last 3 years of his/her life? Not that they were not extraordinary and incredible times and experiences but erasing them would revert me back to the ‘pure form’ I was in 3 years ago (I know what you guys are thinking…ass&^$%&^%!!!).

So, trusting my hypothesis, the next question would be how does one erase the last 3 years? Let’s see. First, wipe out my gmail account and remove myself from any emailing group that I joined within the last 3 years, then backup and delete everything from my hardrive that dates within this period and put the DVD in a box. Then, take all souvenirs, T-shirts, anything that was purchased within the last 3 years and put it in that same box. Change one’s phone number. Move to the place that you haven’t lived in for the last 3 years. And then, most importantly, DELETE/DISABLE THE FACEBOOK ACCOUNT. Voila. Have I forgotten anything?

Then, 10 years down the line, after you have gotten over your quarter life crisis, you can open the box again and enjoy all the ‘goodies’.

Now, back to the question that any lady on this globe desperately wants the answer to. How do you lose 5 pounds in 2 days? Get food poisoning!! Of all the fly infested street meat of Brasil I didn’t get the slightest tummy ache. Having a club sandwich at one of the nicest boutique hotels in Budapest I spend two days shitting and puking my guts out. Now isn’t that ironic??

I miss my clean skin from the sea water, exfoliated feet from walking on sandy beaches… Damn, it must be nice to be a girl…