Grief Survival Guide | Pt 9: Relief and The Leaf | STP 263
Internal Peace vs. External Chaos: The speaker realized that because she grew up managing chaos, she had to actively create an 'internal vacation' or oasis when her external environment (Aruba) failed to provide the peactakeawayCultural Critique of Aruba: The speaker criticizes Aruba for being overrun by cruise ship tourism ('fat whities') which flooded and obscured the indigenous Aruban culture, describing the experience as colonialism rather takeaway“The true oasis and the true vacation and the permanent mindset of being on vacation is created from within.”quote














