RE: Train Adventures - second and hopefully last part 🚂🚋🚊
If I were to tell you that your dilapidated train is better than our so-called good trains, would that be a comforting thought for you? Well, for me, it's still a source of embarrassment. To be honest, I haven't traveled by train in quite a while, but the situation seems just as bad. I keep wondering... Are these smoldering summers what drive our people to constant irritability and irresponsible behavior? Can that even be an excuse for the untidiness and uncleanliness? There's sweat, heat, foul odors, and weariness... all gifts of the season, after all... And add the factor of poverty... Well you can do the maths.
I enjoyed reading your travel diary. It was a fun read. The way you have written about the events made it easy to imagine myself traveling with you :))
I'll admit it's not the most dilapidated train I've ever been on. 🤭 Even the condition of its seats make it look good, isolating them from the rest of the circumstances.
Three years ago, I traveled with "something" that I had no hope would reach its final destination, but it did. Then, three years ago, I found that I was afraid to travel with the Bulgarian public transport because of the constant accidents, old machines bought as second hand from the West, the lack of maintenance and any kind of care, etc. Then, the carelessness of the bus drivers, the old buses again, the very bad roads, frequent non-observance of traffic rules, etc. I have to go to the capital in a few days and I am terrified of what I will be traveling with and how I will get there. Especially if it snows again - the situation becomes even more dire.
Regarding the mentality of the people and their attitude towards the objects around... just today I had a conversation with my partner about a similar topic and I came to the conclusion that the West actually has a very hard time with us because personally, the irresponsibility of the people here seems to me impossible to change, whatever regulations are pushed by the EU. Or some things will be possible to change in 150 years or more.
Thank you for the compliment❣️ I think it is not easy to read the things I write, often I even write hoping that no one will read.😅
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Yes, like a kind of auto psychotherapy. You write something, you get into it, you unravel it, and that writing alone gives you the answers you didn't even suspect before. I am also sure that these writings are difficult to read, even sometimes incomprehensible to outside readers. Especially to those living in normal countries.
Very good explanations!
Thank you! 😊