It’s your holiday; your once-in-a-lifetime dream trip. Or at least your once-in-a-year getaway. Of course you want it to be perfect.
But, let’s face it, nothing in life is perfect. And when you go on holiday, you have to expect some glitches.
When you go to a fast-food restaurant, you don’t expect the food to look like it does in the brochures, or that consuming it will automatically make you more attractive to the opposite sex.
So why do you expect that the long, white beach on the hotel’s website won’t be slightly littered? Or that the bus to take you to that hotel will be on time and in pristine mechanical condition? Or that the locals will always be pleased to see you?
Holidays, like everything else we experience, exist in the real world*, where things are flawed. Delays and stuff-ups occur, people aren’t always kind or honest, and the vistas aren’t always entirely picturesque.
But it’s unpredictability that can make a holiday memorable. Adjust your expectations and enjoy the moment, even when things go disastrously wrong.
It might not seem so now, but that mishap with the luggage will fuel many a dinner-table conversation in the future, and much laughter will ensue. Probably.
If however, you want to complain, see if you can do better than this:
*You may want to check this with a philosopher or theoretical physicistÂ
