Two quick things about holidays.
I’m not sure what your experience of holidays is like, so I only offer you some reflections from my own experience.
The first thing I would want to say about holidays is that they are surreal. In the time leading up to the vacation you wonder what it will be like. Will the flight be on time, what will the food be like, will the weather be tropical? You sort of can sense it, almost smell it, taste it, but it is not the same reality as actually being there.
When you are actually there, on holidays and the weather is a sumptuous 20 degrees, when you are sipping a work of art, chilled beverage, at the pool side, when you are checking out the menu of the cheeky little restaurant you intend to patronise, it’s almost like you have to pinch yourself and ask “Is this real?
And then when you are home, the suitcase is unpacked, the email inbox is crammed, you look back and it all just seems like a lovely dream. In Intangible, sigh worthy and surreal.
The other thing, about holidays and this is the life changing, life saving bit, is that holidays are essential. I have watched with some sadness a number of different folk from different walks of life think that they are OK. They’re not actually. Their ‘inner fuel tank’ is much more depleted than what they thought.
The consequences to themselves, to their workplace and to their loved ones can be quite noticeable and long lasting.
So whatever system you have for your holidays, make sure that you take them, plot for them, relish and ravish them. They are called ‘holy days’ for good reason and they are just as important as our knock about days of work.