My husband and I just finished watching the first season of The White Lotus. It was a very weird series but mostly enjoyable. The first season was set in Hawaii and the videography is gorgeous. The story is about entitled, white, rich people staying at a very expensive resort and a murder. So many of the problems were self induced, which is realistic really. Stupid people doing stupid shit, but also stupid people hurting.
I looked up how much the rooms were at the hotel where the series was shot and the most expensive room/suite was $43,000/night. I can't even imagine anyone paying $43,000/night for a hotel room. How much money do you have to have before this is a non-issue? I had to laugh though because when I looked up the room and the price, one of the amenities was two free bottles of water/day in the room. Two? In a room that costs as much as a vehicle per night. Wow. A stay of ten nights would cost more than our house.
I don't get really rich people. When I think about all the good that much money could do in the world, I just shake my head.
Today I'm cleaning before we leave. Bathrooms (which I hate cleaning) done. Laundry done. Vacuuming and mopping of floors to be done soon, after Heidi gets her walk. Packing, pretty much done.
What's a kind thing you have done today? Just a small thing, nothing big, a small kindness to a stranger. I made an old lady smile. She had a walker and I let her go first in front of me, I told her she had senority. That made her smile.
I helped a woman in my yoga class, who is loud and self centered and who really irritates me, take off the necklace part of the costume that she had worn to class, which she was having trouble with. One very small deed for the day. Yours was better. x0x0 N2
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DeleteThat kind of fantasy is hard to believe, yet there are people who live at that level of $$. I can't get my head around it!
ReplyDeleteI hope the trip goes well.
I can't fathom that kind of money. Fortunately I don't have to:)
DeleteI just got back from dropping off some food at the local food bank. A great chance to get out and enjoy this fall weather.
ReplyDeleteNicely done.
DeleteI can't fathom spending that much money on a hotel room.
ReplyDeleteI make the best chocolate chip cookies and I gave one to my local pharmacist assistant today. A true hero, she works with multiple medical insurance companies every day to help us get covered meds. Imagine that job in the US? Yikes!
I'm sure the pharmacy assistant appreciated the cookie, I know I would.
DeleteI don't get the need for a Rolex watch.
ReplyDeleteI listened, without interrupting, to a hard thing my relative had to tell me about himself that he was a little afraid of telling me. I think he felt better afterwards even though I couldn't make it all better for him, and we told each other we love each other, which we do from time to time but not often.
ReplyDeleteThe absolute self centered-ness of the ultra rich is astonishing. They really could do some good, but no.
ReplyDeleteI offered a woman a cough drop. She was very grateful. I know - a tiny thing.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine spending that kind of money on a hotel room. TWO bottles of water--ridiculous. I donated $500 to my local food bank. They were shocked by the amount but I could have done more. I can't stand the thought of people going hungry.
ReplyDeleteWe loved "The White Lotus." It's great at expressing the obliviousness of the super-wealthy to the realities of the lives around them. I think there are a surprising number of people in the world for whom money is no object. I don't get it either, but that's capitalism for you.
ReplyDeleteThere's an awful lot of wealth in Geneva of course because so many rich people take advantage of the generous tax laws (my friend met Sophia Lauren walking by the lake not so long ago - she introduced herself as Mrs. Ponti). But I don't get that kind of wealth either - well more likely I don't get that kind of spending, to be honest. Designer anything has never impressed me and I do wonder, if you have the money to buy anything your heart desires, don't you get bored? Maybe that's why so many uber-wealthy are unhappy, I don't know. I try to tell myself that they probably also donate anonymously too (although much of that is also a tax dodge), but do I envy them? Not on your life. I guess my only luxury if I were very wealthy would be first class air travel, but beyond that, nah, I'm good!
ReplyDeleteMy little thing for today was donating to a local pet food pantry in honor of my daughter's cat, Lillian. (Today was Lillian's birthday. ♥) The pantry is also trying to expand to help not only the pets but people right now w/food insecurity, given the SNAP fiasco. Just awful, cruel times.
ReplyDeleteWe watched the first few seasons of The White Lotus but don't have HBO now. It IS on HBO, isn't it? Anyway, I enjoyed the shows due to the acting and the writing and the locations but yeah- get over yourselves, you rich white people.
ReplyDeleteExtreme wealth is deeply disturbing.
ReplyDeleteThat kind of money is good for no one, those who have it and society as a whole. They have no problem cutting meager benefits to the poor so they can gather even more money. My brief rant. Since I went nowhere all I can say is I fed the young raccoon and listened to a friend who needed someone to hear her.
ReplyDeleteWell, as it is 4:39am here, the only good thing that I have done is removed the cat from the linen press - twice - because she was making a lot of noise. I am hoping that meant the others in the house could sleep more peacefully. Thank you for your posts on the resilience course you are doing too - lots of food for thought. And lovely photo of you.
ReplyDeleteI kept hearing about White Lotus when it was released but nothing I heard informed me as to what it was about. You have now. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI had afternoon tea in the hotel where the shot the second White Lotus season in Sicily. And I had a cold non-alcoholic drink at the beach bar that features in it. I very much enjoy walking into these hotels whenever, pretending I am filthy rich, ordering the odd small beverage and helping mself to the fancy soaps and whatnots in their bathrooms. And then I walk out. I learned this from my father in law who during the 1950s worked for several years in these types of hotels and he taught me how to act and what to say and how to look bored enough to appear rich.
ReplyDeleteI haven't been anywhere today except for a one-mile-plus walk down my road. I patted Farmbeau's bum each time I passed him at the kitchen counter chopping tomatoes and peppers for the salsa sauce he was making. Can that count?
ReplyDeleteI hope you remembered your wedding hat.
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