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"Remember, you still gatta be you on vacation. If you are sad where you are now and get on a plane to Italy, the you in Italy, will be the same sad you from before, just... in a new place."

"Traveling can't fix deeper issues."

From an older SNL comedy sketch named Romano Tours.

a graphic featuring a person in a house on the left, and then the same person in italy on the right, separated by an equal sign with the caption "same sad you" A screenshot from an SNL comedy sketch named Romano Tours.
8 February at 18:53 | Open on merveilles.town
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R E K
Kevin Boyd

@rek a classic, right up there with "do not buy things you cannot afford"

8 February at 18:59 | Open on phpc.social
R E K

@kboyd i havent seen that one, ill check it out. Been re-watching a lot of SNL sketches.

8 February at 20:01 | Open on merveilles.town
Csepp 🌢
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

@rek Is that why I hated Paris so much? Or was that just Paris 😜

8 February at 19:24 | Open on social.tchncs.de
R E K

@yngmar I had an ok time in Paris, but mostly because i was there to see a show, and there were some ppl there I wanted to see. If it had not been for that I probably wouldn't have gone (no particular reason tho, just cause I had no real draw to it).

9 February at 2:44 | Open on merveilles.town
ex_06

@rek travelling not much, but moving can help with a lot of issues because more often than not even with new lenses and a ''fixed'' mind if you are immersed in a system (both people and places) fully adapted to the old you they won't change instantly with you so they could lead you into going back to a previous form

sorry if i've said too much but it's often overlooked the fact that changing stuff around us forces our brain to change and so it can really help to shake things up, more than trying to find some kind of key inside ourselves

@rek travelling not much, but moving can help with a lot of issues because more often than not even with new lenses and a ''fixed'' mind if you are immersed in a system (both people and places) fully adapted to the old you they won't change instantly with you so they could lead you into going back to a previous form

8 February at 19:40 | Open on puntarella.party
R E K

@ex_06 I'm not certain moving really helps (that's just what I think tho, plagued by some form of sadness, based on personal experience living in different places). Anyway, it depends why the person is sad.

This sketch is mainly poking fun at those who leave bad reviews on travel tours/activities thinking the 'tour/activity' is to blame rather than the fact that they're not in the best state of mind.

8 February at 19:58 | Open on merveilles.town
ex_06

@rek for the first part, i'm kinda sure but ye it's not a ''rule to fix everything for everyone'', for this reason i added ''changing stuff around'' :); it could also be a non physical place, a particular habit, diet and so on (moving usually shakes a lot of habits and there are no old faces around).

for the second part, maybe it sounded like unnecessary explaining or ''going against what you posted'': I just wanted to add this piece of information to a very nice and thoughtful sketch, not subtracting from anything you said! Again, sorry if it came out pedantic w_w

@rek for the first part, i'm kinda sure but ye it's not a ''rule to fix everything for everyone'', for this reason i added ''changing stuff around'' :); it could also be a non physical place, a particular habit, diet and so on (moving usually shakes a lot of habits and there are no old faces around).

8 February at 20:25 | Open on puntarella.party
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