Vacation Mode

Mike and I have travelled a lot this year, but just about every time we skipped town it became more fun to do so because we discovered something.

Vacation Mode

This is a state of consciousness where you give yourself permission to be free: 

Free from caring about work

Free to order whatever you want on the menu

Free to stay up frightfully late because you love talking to one another 

Free to order an alcoholic drink in the middle of the day

Free to go back to the same restaurant three nights in a row because it's literally the best thing that exists in the rat hole called Gainesville (GA, not FL)

After a few trips, we realized that we have been holding ourselves back in "normal life".

Like, why can't we just be in Vacation Mode all the time?

Do what we want to do, eat what we want to eat, when we want to eat it and just enjoy the crap out of life because we are limitless spiritual beings having temporary human experiences and so, yeah, like, why wouldn't you live it up?

It's like when you accidentally press F11 on your keyboard and you're like I had no ideaaaaaaaa and then will your life really ever be the same?

We just became so aware of these silly little limitations we had carried over from a "previous life" where we were trying to save every spare dollar so that we could invest and retire and do whatever we want to do. I mean, what's the point of getting there if you can't even do what you want to do when you get there?

Because of the limits of the left brain. It gets into the pattern of old thinking.

Order a margarita at a restaurant? 

Nah - not worth it. Not "logical". We can make margaritas at home, right?

But what your programming is really saying is, "You're not worth it. You don't deserve what you want."

And maybe some people don't like travelling because it's too hard or inconvenient to bring their normal life along with them, and they're not comfortable living outside of those confines. 

But that is why travel is good and healthy and enlightening because it forces you to get a new perspective and expand your thinking a little bit. 

If you relax and let it.

Travelling is supposed to be fun, but we must give ourselves the permission to have fun because perhaps we are so unaccustomed to not letting go of our rigid expectations of ourselves. 

I remember the first time I had wine on a plane. 

I realized I had been travelling all wrong.

And now I will never not have wine on a plane. You get high...while you get high. 

"Everything should be play. Even work should be play. And that's what it's gonna be." 

- Mike Harshner, 2023

I absolutely love when vacations change my life because I allow them to shift my perspective so much.

Change your thoughts.

Change your mind.

Enter vacation mode.

And then just live there.

I also dropped the E in my name because I decided it was more authentic to me,

TWS (Alli)

But Like Really Why

Dear Facebook Marketplace,

Is it me?

Is it that I want too much to sell my things that you are not allowing me to? 

Is the desperation coming through in my desperately low prices?

I just don't think it's fair that you would limit me.

Like, sure, I can only post 8 items at a time. You got it.

But then I sell, like, over half of the things, and you limit me from posting more?

There is all the sudden a probation period where there wasn't before?

Oh, now I get it.

I am so successful at moving product that you feel threatened.

You give me "tips" like a longer title or refreshing the post.

So clever.

But then you just send all your bots at me.

All the ones that are trained to ask if it is still available.

I hopefully reply, enthusiastically, "Yes!"

And then ghosted, so cold.

So cold.

so cold

why you do this to me

I really didn't want to have to go back to Craig and his list. 

We had a great time together. We really did.

We sold some furniture together, a cat bed, a few dumbbells, just you and I.

Just like old times. 

But then you got too controlling, which is understandable with Zuckerberg at the helm.

You could've been so cool.

so cool

See you in "14 days" or whatever,

TWS