Hello, it’s me again!!!!!!
It’s funny. On holiday, especially when you, sometimes you just want, to be let alone. You hermetically seal yourself into your own world, switch on the electronic keep-away-ray then play at being a twosome to your hearts’ content. For some inexplicable reason, other people misread your à deux vibe and happily, yea ecstatically, intrude…dropping conversation through your barriers, enthusiastically shaking hands, energetically dragging you from your just-built haven back into busy society. Even if you don’t want to go, you do because you were brought up right, and it’s just rude to be rude, isn’t it? So, you sigh and stroll into their space, share a drink or two, swap life stories, even meet for dinner eventually…all the while accepting that no matter how hard you try to extricate yourselves from tribalism, human behavioural laws dictate that we socialise to survive, and isolate ourselves at our peril.Having befriended them, you amusingly discover that these new folks aren’t so bad, quite interesting, in fact, and, as well as being very well-travelled and educated conversationalists, they agree with your views on politics! Wow! And to think you might have missed out on this bright, budding friendship!
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