Shimon Peres gave a talk in Ukraine and encouraged Ukrainians never to go on vacation because vacations are a waste of time and he’s never taken one in his 90+ years of life.
I only have one response when I hear this sort of thing: poor fellow, what a horrible, empty personal life he must have had. Never to have met a person with whom he’d want to spend 6 weeks in bed actively not working. Never to have known the kind of love that makes one want to spend the day, the week, the month looking at the beloved person, walking and talking with her. Never to have been wanted by anybody for three whole days of uninterrupted togetherness.
Yes, I know he had a wife. That must have been a beaut of a relationship if he had to hide from it at work every day of his life.
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