I have been wondering - over the years - how every day life might be in say the UK or the USA or Timbaktoo or Botswana. And then I wondered, what I know about every day life in Germany. And
I came to the conclusion, that it is not much. That is, because there is no common every day life anywhere.
Then again, there are common denominators: in Germany, where we have peace, it is easier to live, than it is in Syria or Northern Ireland or Afghanistan. There it is about surviving every hour of the day, every day of the week and every week of the month. Anywhere, where you live in peace, you get easily discontent with your lot. If you compare yourself with people who have what you want or just have more of whar you want.
I heard - several times - that in places, where every one has the same or everybody has nothing, people are more content, than in the lands of plenty. Because here is enough, we forget what we have. And one part of what we have is the peaceful everyday life. I take my example, which really is the only one I can give:
currently on weekdays, I get up at 5.00 am and get ready to catch my bus at 5.49 am. Then I travel to the main station of my town, where I change to a train. With that train I travel to the next bigger town, at central station, I change to catch another train to another town, where I change into another bus to get to my place of work. I arrive at about 7.10 am. Now, for a lot of people, that is no distance and not a long time to get to work. For me, being used to a maximum of 30 Minutes commuting from door to door, that is a very long travel.
Being a civil servant, I work 8.12 hours a day, so I finish around 4.00 - 4.30 pm. Then I travel back, only for the last leg of the trip I walk. I might go to do some sport (very seldom though) or do some grocery shopping. If I finish by 4.30 pm, I arrive at home around 5.45 pm, without the shopping and sport or so.
After work I might do some housework or go to choirpractice on a wedneday or just play on my computer, read, knit or - like today - bake a bread in my new automat. So I have a very quiet life and I love it. I am not into hustle and bustle, but prefer to stay quiet, whenever I can.
Now, other people are married and/or have children to care for or a lot of hobbies that they have to leave the house for or care for a sick person or relative, work in shifts, don't work at all, for different reasons, so there everyday life is very different from mine. I don't envy them, but I am not sorry for most of them either, because I am sure, that in the cases, where is a choice, they chose that lifestyle for themselves. Wether they know it or not.
Still, I wonder, if life say in Botsuan or Mumbai or Istambul, Ecuador, Toronto, Moscow, Shanghai, Kawashima, South Africa is very much different from mine or others I know.
Is it easy - as it is here - to live as a happy single woman and work for oneself, decide for oneself, act for oneself or are there problems to live as a single person, whatever sex in their country?
I always imagine - for instance - that in poorer countries you have to work together with others. To pool money, time, power, abilities material, just to secure your basics.
It just went through my head and I wondered.
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