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Poland's Lost Generation [172]
What exactly did you not like in the West?
To me life over here resembles a huge community home :) Everything here has been bought and everything organized; and nothing's left to discover.
You go from England to Wales and you see the very same shops in every town. Let's say every morning you drink coffee at the cafe, you go on holiday to another part of the country and you want to see different places and maybe try different coffee - but no, over there they have the same cafes selling exactly the same coffee. It's a counterfeit of choice - it looks like there was plenty to choose from, but really you can have only either Starbucks or Costa coffee, that's it. It's the same with clothes - all shops sell similar clothes. The same with clubs - same dead boring music in every club.
My colleague told me her husband spends £60 a week on his hobby, which is cycling. I thought cycling was one of the cheapest hobbies one can have - all you need to pay for is the bike. But not here, apparently, because they have organized the hobby and you must pay to the organizers. People don't swim in rivers and lakes like in backward Poland, but they prefer crowded swimming pools. I find it too stressful - over combative kids attack me to win territory..
Sometime ago I read on this forum someone complaining about lack of decent footpaths in the countryside in Poland. Actually, I miss that very much. I miss going on a trip and having that little adventure and the sense of freedom, not feeling as if I was walking through a city pleasure ground
I don't want Poland to develop in this direction, I like our rough and tumble ways of living
