The real housewives of Brazil

Backland of Rio State, January 2022

Recently, I started to watch american reality tv shows. Actually, it was my friend Ivan who got me into it, talking about that trash tv and how amazingly addictive it had become to watch other people‘s lives that were so totally in contrary to ours. It mainly concerns the nouveau-riche bling-bling generation, in which the only focus in life is to show how much money one can spend in mostly ostentatious things. These people turn out to have so many problems in their lives that they don‘t seem happy at all. I mean, their problems are real nonsens and ridiculous to us but everything needs to be look at in different perspectives. Everyone has the right to be unhappy, for a reason or no reason. Is n‘t it?

I watched the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and was drawn into those hyper intrigant women relation ships that called themselves friends. Highly operated faces and bodies wearing expensive tacky clothes, dealing with staff like personal assistants, nannies, chefs and stylists doing everything possible for them to make them happy. But divorces and public defamation come across their lives and destroy the harmony in paradisiac infinity pool settings under palm trees. Drama after drama.

Again I realize how happy I am for what I have and what I don’t have. Money is not at all important if having enough for daily living - and, in my case, some airplane tickets. That is my only luxury, haha!

Guggi, the twin boys and Vitor, the father of the twins and myself went on a 5-day vacation trip to a budget luxury ranch/resort with pool, fitness center, sauna and a tennis court in the middle of the mountains of Rio state. We wanted to spend some quality time with the kids who were highly entertained by the animal farm and the kids pool all day long. This time, we had chosen the inland as the coast was far too crowded due to school vacation time. Also, we wanted the boys to get to know something else beside the beach they are used to all year long. The resort was beautifully set in the jungle, with a small river passing through. I took my early morning showers under the waterfall and went on a hike to discover the surroundings, while Guggi tried out some zip-lining adventure over the hills.

Later on, we decided to play some tennis in the heat of the day and had great fun missing the balls. Although I had played during childhood and received some classes as an adult, my skills were not great. Guggi was a total beginner but she is so sporty that she catches up with anything very easily. We still had a good exercise, lots of fun and felt like posh rich housewives, knowing the kids in the pool with their daddy, while our beds had been done and food is being prepared for us for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Luxury has different perspectives aswell, I guess. For us, its the time we can still spend together.