Jumping on a car for a road trip and just driving away gives that sense of liberation, of escape, of leaving all behind -even if we have to come back to that ‘all’ in a few days and we know so. Such a thrill from such a simple thing. When the first higher mounts start popping up in the landscape, it is sheer exhilaration. Like a child seeing Disney’s castle for the first time- or more.
Why did I need this? Had I got too much used to the non-routine and was now ‘stuck’ in the city rut? Was I getting into the ‘used to it’ after only a few weeks in the same place? If this is what I needed: some stability to be able to move on with other aspects of my life. Although I was ‘technically’ on vacation, I was doing some other chores that kept my days busy and even short; still, the overall mode was ‘vacation’. Did I need a vacation from the vacation?
What happens when we have a job then? If even while on vacation we bump into that need for a change of environment, then it is not just work itself that makes us ‘tired’ but also the space, the routine or lack of.
From Brooklyn to New Paltz. ~By GoogleMaps.
2 comments:
I have a question in reply to yours (ie, whether we need a vacation from a vacation). Is only work we get paid for, the only work we do? ;) I think, we tend to underestimate the efforts we make which do not fit into that label.
Florencia, RIGHT ON!!! And i believe that our underestimation paves the way for some around us to just do the same....
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