I recently discovered:
The things you do on your vacation are the same in your daily life, only amplified.
Let me explain.
Most of the dreams of our vacations consist of a different, better, more fun version of ourselves.
The ones who do yoga by the beach, read a book while laying in the hammock, run 5km along the river, have deep unrushed conversations with their loved ones and have a better quality sleep.
After all, we are on vacation. We got the time, the mind and the energy.
But come holiday, be it three days or three months, we don’t really do most of the things we imagine ourselves doing.
We went to the park once and walked on the beach but didn’t swim/read/chill on the beach. We brought seven books and an empty journal but didn’t finish reading one book or write more than a few sentences. We didn’t run once and spent most of the time in the hotel room, watching Netflix. And by we, I mean me.
I almost always dream of another version of myself when I daydream about my vacation—the version that takes a sushi class in Japan and visits Chinatown in Jakarta. When in reality, I’d spend my evenings away inside Starbucks, both in Japan and Jakarta.
Then only, it hit me.
A vacation wouldn’t magically change us into another (the better, the ideal) version of us.
If we want to be someone who plays sports, explores, writes and reads during vacation, instead of changing the holiday destination or the length or the person we are holidaying with, we should change ourselves before the vacation as we are the common denominator between the 9-5 and vacation lives.
This realisation came at what felt like a redundant time as we are in the middle of lockdown right now. But with the Christmas holiday coming up, the dream of a better living tagged along with it.
So, wish me luck on slowly changing this-me to turn into the vacation-me.
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