Sometimes it feels like my brain isn't capable of fully planning stuff ahead in the far future. Thinking about trying to meet someone or set a date for something further than a while ahead just brings some kinds or error.
Yup, that totally means that sometimes I will miss something good because my own planning had totally messed something up. On the other hand I really don't like looking at my week and there are all kinds of things popping up that I had written down months ago and I don't feel like doing them again anymore. So I just don't do this at all.
Two weeks is like the max that I can think ahead but when you are living in entire-planned-Netherlands this sometimes ends up kind into kind of a shit show.
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A friends of mine coming from the Caribbean who had moved to here just recently contacted me for something and we were trying to meet up. On trying to meet up she said something like: 'Let's try to make things work because I know how busy you Dutchies are in planning all ahead so all of the schedules are full'
And this is true. Dutchies are notorious for planning ahead and having totally packed schedules for the next upcoming weeks or months. Try to walk in randomly on a Dutchy and they will go mad.
We can't deal with the unplanned visits and also we don't have the option for it as all of the planning is already packed. So unplanned visits always mean that something else is then in jeopardy.
Not me dude
I refuse to do this planning so far ahead and packing my whole weeks. Sure in the wedding season there are some thing that are planned a year before hand including the bachelorette parties and so on, but those are extremes and stuff that is only a one time event.
And that is also what I told my friend who I am trying to meet up with. Not planning and just checking week by week if it is possible. Now weeks later, we still haven't met up and that is still fine because I know eventually this will happen when it suits the both of us.
But not planning and living in the Netherlands...that is challenging. Efficient they call it how everything works here. I call it 'gone-too-far'.
I have been trying to make an appointment for getting an activity with 6 adults and 2 kids for something so easiest to do this is in the summer holiday period of course. Naively I had contacted the place where we are headed to and asked them for availability for the upcoming two weeks since that fits the summer thinking this would be just fine.
The honest reply I got back was that there was availability in.... October....
October, let that sink in. I was thinking in the next two weeks.
But come on dude. Thinking about October for something simple feels completely ridiculous. I could be unemployed by then, I could have broken a leg by then, or I could be dead by then. The world can have ended around that time already, the country flooded or the Netherlands might even have a new government around that time already. So many variables. It doesn't make sense to look so far ahead when just trying to get something simple done.
For me hearing that there is room in October makes me just choose something else, but I guess thew majority of the Dutchies think different and will totally except that spot in October.
I will take my chances on feeling left out in the end than over looking at my schedule for the upcoming months and seeing there is not even room to take a dump because it is packed so full..