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Holidaying in 2020 - lessons from a wave

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  This year's holidays for our family were interesting, different and once in a lifetime like I guess most of the experiences we had this year, right? Our holidays:            smelled of hand sanitizer; had a view of forms and thermometers; felt like a long-distance, a social distance; sounded like the covid numbers on the radio; had a sour taste that the world is not going to be the same before. But we were together, the four of us against the world.... During lockdown this year, we got to spend more time with our kids and with each other. It was all, however, within the stress of everyday life, within crisis management conditions, within the fear of the unknown that was unfolding slowly day by day.  This year gave me the gift of re-evaluating my desires, needs and priorities (we were among the lucky ones). These holidays were the closing of the "deal". We saw each other not as we do daily but as who we really are. We enjoyed life's small things, that are not small a