You know what the greatest wonder in the world is? The greatest wonder is that every day, all around us, people die, but we act as if it couldn’t happen to us. In China, roughly 27,573 people die each day. In India, it's around 26,520. In the United States, 7,700, give or take. In Switzerland, it's about 179. In Micronesia, it's just 2. In Liechtenstein, 1.
I know Liechtenstein well from the days when my Saudi boss would routinely re-invoice his shipments to Saudi Arabia at hugely inflated prices via a "Treuhandgesellschaft" in Vaduz to collect higher import subsidies from the Saudi government, so why not move to Liechtenstein?
It's far too cold! Even though I don't know Bali's daily death quota, I much prefer to spend my last few years there, or, better still, in my old stamping-ground Borneo - or, as the locals call it now, Kalimantan - which is like Bali but with more rain forests and orangutans (which means "men of the forest", but you knew that, didn't you, Des?)
Of course, leaving Nelligen - or whythehelldoyouliveinNelligen, as my friends call it - after more than thirty years would take me right back to the time when I was dragging myself all over the world in the naïve hope that this would give me some clarity about what life was all about, and perhaps also give me a fresh perspective or a change in personality, and ultimately an answer to the question of what to do with my life.
Somehow I seem to have lost track of whether I wanted to tell you about Liechtenstein or my wish to relocate to Bali or that I'm beginning to face my own mortality. Perhaps I should go back to my YouTube channel on which I interview garden gnomes. I don't want to brag but, unlike this blog, it is enjoyed by well over three people worldwide.
P.S. "Warum Deutsche Liechtenstein lieben sollten".
