justlenasart on Nostr: I am in Bali now for 2 weeks …. And I’m too old for this place. The crowd is easy ...

I am in Bali now for 2 weeks …. And I’m too old for this place.

The crowd is easy to spot.
Yoga mats. Linen bags. Tattoos.
Matcha to go.
Scooters. No helmet. No shirt.

It’s almost a UNIFORM/ BRAND of
the consciously awakened nomad, spiritually aligned,
recently escaped from the 9–5 pressure of the West.

Three months in Bali. Sometimes more.

Living well on prices they’d complain about back home.

Sitting in cafés, MacBooks open,
talking about healing, spirituality, the next cacao ceremony.

And how much they LOVE this island.

Sure you do.

You love your photos.
The aesthetic.
The affordable “healthy lifestyle”…. bowls, matcha, sunlight.

But DO YOU actually love Bali?

Because loving a place isn’t just consuming what’s beautiful.
It’s taking responsibility for what isn’t.

And the other Bali exists too….
trash in the streets,
sick street dogs, stray cats,
the parts that don’t fit your feed.

They don’t disappear just because you crop them out.

So here’s a thought:

Skip one smoothie. One.

And donate that money to the people actually doing the work here…
cleaning up what your version of Bali ignores.

Or at least BE HONEST.

You don’t love Bali.
You love the version of it that looks good on your social media feed.