Renee Krol, 32, is on holiday in Fiji. Before going, the HR Manager blamed her unhappiness on work and a long Melbourne winter. Now, on annual leave in a tropical location, Renee is surprised to find that she is still miserable.
She told Babbler, “The beach is almost too beautiful, if you know what I mean?”
The trip of a life-time has been seamless. Renee’s flights were on time, she got a room upgrade, the resort, food and service have been impeccable, the weather has been perfect, the locals welcoming, and the scenery has been like something on a postcard. And yet, Renee can’t help but feel that life should somehow be better.
Renee said, “I really hoped that this holiday would solve all of my problems and make me start to live life to its full potential. I don’t think I was expecting too much.”
The local people have taken to greeting her multiple times a day with, “Bula! Smile, lady!”
Renee spends her days moving between the beach, restaurant and picture-perfect infinity pool, while stewing over personal injustices including an argument she had with a stranger at Woolies 18 months earlier.
On her sixth night, in four pina coladas deep, Renee had a profound and potentially life-changing realisation. In the restaurant, she told Jeanette and Ian from Wollongong at the neighbouring table, “Is it possible the problem is me?!”
Later that night in the bar, Renee had drunk another pina colada and three shells of local kava. She was surprisingly lucid and overheard saying, “I always do this. Expect some new big shiny thing to fix all my problems, but the problem is me. Nothing will change until I change. I’m finally free!”
The next morning, Renee was quick to dismiss last night’s enlightenment as drunken silliness. She told Babbler, “I just want to get home, out of this heat, and back into my routine. I think that’s all I need to find some happiness.”
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