Antipool / by Mirena Rhee

The purpose of travel is not to get yourself an expensive room or pool and sit in it. In fact, this is absolutely the saddest experience you could possibly get out of your free time.

On the contrary, to really enjoy your time off you need to meet new people and make merry. That could mean gathering around tables with strangers sipping wine and having conversation, it could mean walking with strangers along a path and exchanging your most intimate dreams. It could mean sitting around in a circle and talking about life and everything.

I believe our biggest disease in the US is loneliness and isolation. This is the biggest killer.

And because the news is full of strangers committing heinous acts the media is conditioning us that the human being is some sort of a beast.

We sit on the couches and watch how on television there is a parade of felons.

Forget that, get out of your living room and out of your couch and go meet people and drink some wine.

You know how in these magazines or whatever I don't know,  Instagram? They show lonely people in front of pools, especially Infinity pools and I'm thinking why on earth would you spend the most precious time of your life sitting alone up to your waist in water?

You'd sit there for like an hour or two but what after that?

If you want to experience relaxation in water I highly recommend a Korean bath house. Korean baths are the opposite of the Infinity pool experience in the sense that it is a communal experience but a very relaxing one.