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Tired of the new rules, Carmina closed her Google Maps account — what pushed her over the edge?

It’s been months since Carmina last posted on her Google Maps. I started doing it just for fun, exploring new places to dine and travel, and sharing those spots with others. Back in 2017, I wasn’t even blogging yet. Over the years, I received numerous email updates about changes, but in September, the removal of followers on Google Maps felt particularly strange. There’s no point in complaining about it. I decided not to close my account, as it wasn’t an option, but I did delete all the photos I had contributed over the years. I have fond memories of seeing which photos were popular and had hoped to share them with you. It was surprising to see how many views my pictures had accumulated. While deleting them, I noticed that many restaurants and bakeries no longer exist, with some marked as unknown on the map. Most of my photos were from the pandemic period, a time when I could fully express myself and write about the food I enjoyed. Let's take a trip down memory lane with Carmina th...

Opposite World



The life you live become the opposite from where your family and friends live and the way you live off from having what they call it an easy life the life they don't have and what they would want if they could.

The life I live in the Philippines living with a handful of people is a life some people don't want and they cannot picture their friends living in that kind of situation from someone who has lived here for so many years you learn to accustom yourself in every life situation you get use to it from the beginning it is difficult once you learn to live the way your life is you get acquitted to how it will become until you move out to have your own place of your own.

My friends always tell me how can you manage to live that kind of life and put themselves in my shoe they need their own privacy.

My friends explain they have been living life alone and being single gives them the freedom to do what they want to do and no one can tell them what to do.

I always tell my friends they had picked that that kind of life to live on their own and do what they feel they can control but I asked them do you see yourself alone until you get old don't you ever feel you want to be loved to have a companion who can be there to take care of you when you reach being a senior some people don't want to left alone in their home.

There are other people who prefer to live alone until they do become a senior they feel they have the freedom and they are independent to do whatever they feel like doing they don't need to worry for the other person who is at their side.

Yes, they do get lonely and it hits them at night this is what my friends tell me.

My friends tell me if they cannot find the companion maybe fate is not there for them. I always tell them you never know who you would run into and who knows there is a person just that you haven't seen them or they can be among your friends who are also single but never paid attention to them.

Sometimes we don't know how our life will be and who will be a part of our life when the time comes.

To get to know a person takes months and years to know they really well enough and by the time you have concentrated on that person you have known them enough of who they are and they know who you are based on your own conversation with them.

My friends always ask me if I we're to move back to California would I be able to cope it without any helpers in your environment. I always tell my friends yes I can cope with it and living the way I live I haven't spoiled myself any different than anyone else.

I can cook my own food.

I can do my own laundry.

I can clean my own home.

I can shop alone in the grocery store.

I can drive and I still have my California driver's license like anyone else we renew it when it is expired.

I can do things on my own and don't need to depend on anyone only myself.

Just where I live is only temporary everyone has their own dreams and where they want to live in order to do that we planned ahead and if those plans don't come sometimes in fate it brings us to a different direction where our fate can lead us somewhere else we really don't know what will happen when it does for sure I will tell you by than when I am there.

 


 



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