Out of the house in the morning, home in the evening.
Out of the house in the morning, home in the evening.
Out of the house in the morning, home in the evening.
Unfortunately, this is what life is like for most people.
And the apartment is getting more and more filthy, so cleaning and laundry has to be done at the weekend and the tax return and all that other nonsense that adults have to deal with is left behind.
Then people sigh, sit down at their desks and do the same thing.
Andrea Diener
Correspondent in the Main-Taunus district
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It's a big misunderstanding that adults just don't play because they don't feel like it.
Only a few very, very boring people do that.
Most just don't have the time, and when they do, they feel bad that they're not doing some insanely important adult stuff.
Most of the time, being an adult feels like the homework just never ends.
In order not to have homework and to be able to play in peace, adults have to leave the house and preferably also the city or country in which they live.
Then they reserve a hotel somewhere that's nice or sunny and do whatever they feel like doing.
In fact, they do nothing all day long other than what children love to do, namely dawdling and playing, they just call it something else.
They talk about relaxation and recreation.
Sometimes they invent even funnier words for it, like wellness.
It sounds better and they can feel more grown up doing it.
Also, adults do something that children don't understand: they spend hours looking at the countryside.
It's really hard to explain, but adults are obsessed with the landscape.
The sea that is so blue, the mountains that with a bit of luck are still a bit white at the top, the sun that sets all red - they can't get enough of it, while the children get fidgety and bored to death.
The grown-ups just sit there and sigh around and keep saying things like "Oh, it's lovely here!" You have to understand that, that's just how they are.
They seldom see anything beautiful, but see gray filing cabinets and gray desks and gray walls all day long and only a few sad plants.
That's why they have to fill up trees and meadows and beaches so that they can last a while in the office again.
And one more thing: at some point they will get along with each other again.
It goes on for a few days where they're still as annoyed as ever, and they keep wanting to get rid of everyone because they're so used to it to keep work off their backs.
But then they realize that nobody wants anything from them anymore, apart from bringing them coffee or pizza, and they relax and don't always look away, but instead look other people in the eye.
For people, holidays are a bit like rescuing a circus animal from a cage that is too narrow, and it no longer has to perform tricks.
At least for two or three weeks a year, and that's better than nothing.