Monday, January 10, 2011

Fun Kuoni Holidays



As fun as Kuoni holidays are, they are more fun when shared with friends. Friends can joke with you about the sights you see, harass you while you wait for dinner, prod you into participating when you'd rather veg out by the pool, and in general keep you from either overdoing or under-doing your Kuoni holidays. Friends can make you more responsible, as you have to do this for them too. Unless of course you're a bunch of reckless college kids. In that case, friends will probably make you less responsible (so, kids, don't do stereotypical spring break until you're old enough to behave yourselves).
Plus, when you take Kuoni holidays with friends, you make memories that you can rehash and relive over and over for years and years (and hopefully for a lifetime). That is something special, a bonding experience, that only you can ever remember. You can tell other people, you can bring them into the memories, but it's not the same as having actually been there with one another, having lived through the experiences, good bad and ugly, and now looking back and laughing about all of it.
When you take Kuoni holidays, or any kind of holidays, with friends, you take a learning journey with them. Doing anything with another human being has the potential to become a learning experience. Sure, we don't usually learn a lot all at once, and usually it takes a long time for us to fully realize all of those little lessons we learned over the years, but there is something special about having learned together. You might learn about the people there, you might learn about your friends, you might learn about yourselves together, or you might learn about the horrible customer service of travel agencies. Who knows. But you will have learned and lived together.
There is something powerful about living in community together, and if you can't stomach the thought of actually living with people, you could probably benefit from at least living with them for a little while. Take a family vacation, take a friends vacation, take a couples vacation, and see what it is like to live in community. You'll probably save money, and there almost certainly will be a lot of stuff you don't like. But if you look with your inside eyes open, you might see some good things about community. You might even become addicted.

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