Holidays are vital and would lengthen life expectancy. This is the observation made by a team of researchers from the University of Helsinki (Finland), at the end of a study spread over forty years. According to the same researchers, holidays are useful for reducing stress due to an intense pace of work.
DIn the same perspective, in the opinion of several analysts, the coronavirus crisis would bring about major upheavals, in particular the lifestyles of men.
Except that in Tunisia and taking into account a crossing of the desert which lasted only too long, time would have stopped here. But what would we still say where a large part of Tunisians live stuck between galloping inflation and very modest incomes?
Work? We are not profitable. The scientific research? Are we missing subscribers? Holidays and hobbies? It is now an inaccessible luxury for the middle and poor classes.
In this sense, abounds Feirouz Gdhami, a teacher with nearly twenty years of experience: “Holidays, once an essential component of our family life, are no longer there. We no longer have the means to go anywhere for a few days of relaxation. Because life has become very expensive and my salaries have not followed, ”she laments.
Not going overboard, Walid Saïdi, a civil servant, draws attention to the harmful consequences of a monotonous, bland, even “miserable” life.
“There is no longer a middle class in Tunisia. There are rich and poor. Teachers, health personnel and the rest of the administration no longer live. They fight and persevere to survive. We ruined everything in this beautiful country where it was good to live in the past, ”he says.
Contenting himself with a very short sentence to express his dismay, Fadhila Mahersi, artist-painter, affirmed: “You only have to observe our classification in the reports relating to the index of happiness to realize the gravity of our descent into hell”.
Ranked at 120e Placed out of 142 countries by the latest “World Hppiness Report”, Tunisia is far from being a good place to live today. Evidenced by the continuous drain of his brains. His people are not immune to the consequences thereof.
Psychiatrists continue to sound the alarm, reporting a marked increase in cries of psychic distress. With an inflation rate of nearly 8%, a poverty rate of nearly 20%, an unemployment rate of 20% or nearly and an annual average of nearly 20,000 cases of divorce, the conclusion is that one cannot more bitter. A screed of lead melts over society. However, the spectacle, which the professionals of the verb and of political politics continue to deliver to us, resembles that delivered by small animals fighting over a plum.