Not me. Uh – uh. Not ever.
I always take vacation for exactly what it’s for: rejuvenation.
Sometimes vacation can have its moments of busy-ness, as stress can be found anywhere when you deal with life, people, and events. But, I don’t stress myself out trying to make a vacation perfect. I try to make it worthwhile. Vacation serves its purpose when you can spend a day doing precisely what you want to be doing and have a bit more energy at the end of the day than you normally would. Vacation means taking time to feel things, learn things, know things that you normally wouldn’t have time for in the bustle of everyday life.
Which is why it astounds me when people conflate a jam-packed trip with VACATION. Disney land, tourist buses, schedules, alarm clocks, etc. They are all fine and good in and of themselves, but when it’s all smooshed together so you spend your days running around and cramming, that’s not vacation, that’s just more of regular life with more sunshine and unhealthy food.
In these last weeks of summer, take time to embrace time itself. Time with family, time for a nap, time for a healthy fruit smoothie. Rejuvenate your soul.
It’s a gift only you can give yourself.