Last week Trish & I went to Cancun
We’d planned this sometime ago and we had a really nice week<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Visited Isla Mujeres, Chichen Itz\u00e1, and went snorkelling a couple times<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the ride over to Isla Mujeres we sat near this gent from Goa India who was on board without his girlfriend (she was sick that day)
We struck up a conversation and it turns out he’s in the same line of work I am
And we had a great visit for about 2 hours
I’m sure Trish was bored as heck as we talked nothing but tech & geek topics the entire time<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And when we finally departed the boat we both made a deliberate & concerted effort to find the other & thanked each other for what turned out to be a great conversation which made the trip even nicer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It made nice day even nicer to meet someone as passionate about the things we talked about<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then the last evening we were there we sat with another resident of the condominium and her daughter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At first the daughter wasnt very engaged in any of the conversations. Then her mom asked about what the heck was going on in Tennessee and the Tennessee three & I explained what that was and what had occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her daughter then joined in and became quite animated and engaged and we sat & talked politics for a couple hours. She was extremely well spoken and knowledgeable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And her mom just sat and you could see her smiling as we talked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And we covered a lot of topics from politics to health care to Canada’s governmental systems and a lot in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eventually it grew late and the young lady departed<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At that point her mom leaned over to me and said “Thank you VERY much for finding my daughter in there”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She said that her daughter had, through covid, become quite withdrawn and disengaged and that this was perhaps the most conversation she had engaged in in the last 3 years. Mom was almost in tears as she said her daughter had come out of the shell she built up through covid & all the lockdowns and isolation.
I have to admit that I felt really glad to have “helped” but it was so easy. I just talked to her daughter and we had a great chat. It was thoroughly enjoyable especially to see an under 20 person so knowledgeable and engaged in politics and so much else going on in the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Oh yeah. Cancun was fun too !<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Last week Trish & I went to CancunWe’d planned this sometime ago and we had a really nice week Visited Isla Mujeres, Chichen Itz\u00e1, and went snorkelling a couple times On the ride over to Isla Mujeres we sat near this gent from Goa India who was on board without his girlfriend (she was sick … <\/p>\n