Not a day goes by that we don’t get to see some disaster. Not a day goes by that we don’t get to see a nice kitty, bird or other cute animal. Accidents, miracles, forest fires and more. Everything is screaming for our attention and everything leaves everything else in the dust.

When the first (great) pictures of an Iceland volcano eruption flooded the media, everybody was (supposed to be) in awe. Now, several weeks later, the pictures barely show up on the last pages of the newspapers, let alone on online news outlets.

When a government allows itself to restrict your movements, short trips are all you can get. Luckily I now live in a place with beauty very close by. Barely out of town, the vistas open up. It may not be to the liking of any government to move more than a few kilometers away from home, but hey, with no symptoms of anything, nobody getting sick in my surroundings, I can fairly safely say that I don’t carry this particular virus.

Driving around in a car, getting out in an open space and staying away from anyone who wants to approach, the risk of catching anything but a headache from my ranting is nil to anyone.

We’re there again. Lockdown. Roughly a year ago, nobody could have imagined that something like this could ever happen. Yet here we are. Lockdown after lockdown, restrictions after restrictions. Some countries even go as far as a full confinement, with no possibility to even leave your home.

Luckily, Canada has not implemented such restrictions nation-wide. After all, some business must go on, right? At least we can still go out a bit, to get some fresh air.

On vacation, we all tend to go where everyone else goes. It’s so much easier to find those online reactions for good food and good service. The more people go somewhere, the more they talk about it. The more people will be attracted to that place. It seems to be a natural process for everything.

Yet, here I am, thinking (again) that there must be more than this. What if I go left where everyone wants us to go right?