I love Europe!
I just got back from a walk around the old town in Warsaw.
It’s really beautiful.
Specifically, I love the old stuff.
Castle walls… cobblestone streets… courtyards… wells… towers….
Modern steel and glass are just not my cup of tea.
Another Day, Another City
Do you ever wake up and think, Where am I?
Sometimes it happens to me.
I am a travelling teacher.
This weekend I came to Warsaw to meet with my Vig Village members.
Tomorrow morning, I’m on the road again.
The Good Old Days
The old days may have been more appealing to the eyes…
But would you like to have lived back then?
I made a list of the top three things I would miss about modern times.
#3 — Freedom
Freedom of speech — In the Middle Ages, you could lose your life if you said the wrong thing about the church or the king.
Freedom of movement — Travel was difficult and dangerous and sometimes forbidden.
Economic freedom — Your job was your father’s job.
What would you miss?
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I would miss loving the person I like and not the person who is prescribed to me.
love is not exsist
HI Ryan ! A large of us lived, in the communist system.
We had no freedom of speech, of movement in the world.
The economy,everyone knows how it was reporter and many,many others things.
From the 90s onwards we started to learn how it is in , ” DEMOCRACY ”
Cheers,
Gabriel
PS. Sorry for reporter. Should be reported.
I would miss the freedom of choice.
thank for the good information we wish all the best
You’re very right and you already pointed the most Important things about modern times. I would add the freedom to have different opinions, the equality of chances between man and woman, young people and old people…,but also I feel that we have to work a lot because all these things are not so well strengthened and sometimes they may return like in the old days, as we saw.
Freedom – a matter of our spiritual expansion. We can ask ourselves: who am I, where am I?
Answer – read Mr. Vig.
Good advice!
For me life is always appealing. Sometimes you fall then get up and start all over again and go on…
I would miss access to education and knowlege, especially as a woman.
In the current way of life, I miss authenticity, or less lies (deception, concealment, treachery) in all areas. The truth is the truth after all.
I would miss modern standards of personal and public hygiene
I would miss the freedom for traveling and speaking…
Actually, in general, of course not. I don’t want to go back one day, because now I can travel by plane and study at unuversity anywhere I want (I just have to try my best) and I can meet new people just by joining the special program….. But it is completely different in Iran. Earlier days at that time, it was a more comfortable and lovely time that my father and many older people explained to us about that time.
Feedom and democracy is very important in these days again for many of us, I guest.
Warsaw is nice but Gdańsk much beautyful 🙂
Hi!
No, I wouldn´t have wanted to live back then. Then I wouldn´t have known what life is like now. I have eyes, ears, hands, feet and they all work. Of course I am happy and satisfied that I can live right now. I can change myself, and through it, maybe a little bit of the world. I would do anything to have peace.
Have a nice day!
Hi! I would miss the possibility to listen the music every time in every place with quality sound…
nice to meet you, first the freedom of moviment, to follow love and the economic freedom; when we are freedom of moviment, in the way, we can think, write and speech, yes the job is father but the life is a walk
The coin has two views and depend on the place – the country, where we were borned and we are growning.
In all over the world, there were and there are big differencies, inequalities and difficulties among the people for the freedom and the pursuit of the happiness
Fortunatelly I was borned to the country, where borned the DEMOCRACY.
With today’s PC rules, I wouldn’t be so sure about freedom of speech. Although Eastern Europe is still an oasis in this aspect.
I would miss the view from the windows of my first home. It was an old, two-story and very beautiful house by the sea. It was my grandparent‘s house.
From my room window I could see the sea and the lighthouse at the end of the pier. Only that. So little, and what an abundance!
Today, from the window of my new home you can see the apartments of the neighboring modern building. Their windows are so close that you can see the glowing TVs in the rooms. So much and so meanly!
In fact, I won‘t miss anything, because the all beauty of the past is always with me…it’s in my heart!
Thanks, Mr. Vig for the inspiration my first short story in English!
I would miss the ability to drive to a place I don’t know because I use waze these days.
Hi everyone :-), I would miss the comfort of the everyday life. Can you imagine a winter time in a stone walls without central heating and warm watter?!
I’m so grateful to live now!
Have a nice da?!
Albena
Nobody enjoy the freedom, Its just a word and concept.
The freedom of speech and the freedom of movement are very hard stuff for a person . Additional lf l wouldn’t like to follow my fathers jod it’s very stressful . I would miss the freedom to live free . I like travelling , express my opinion , to change the kid l like
Hello Mr. Vig. I’m really happy you are in Warsaw. Have a nice day🥰