back to reality

October 4, 2006 &bull uncategorized

Monday was my first day back at work. I tend to suffer acute “post-vacation blues syndrome” whenever I return to work after a nice time away from it. Because our trip to France was a) my longest vacation ever and b) quite possibly the best vacation I’ve ever had in my life, I probably don’t need to mention I’ve been singing the blues for the last couple days.

It’s amazing how much perspective one gets about his life when he goes on vacation. I guess this, along with the needed time away and the sheer enjoyment I get in seeing other places (or visiting family/friends, etc.), is why I take vacations. While some may find the following as odd, I can’t believe I’m the only person who thinks this way. That is, a small part of me hates vacations because I fall so far behind at work and completely despise my job (and life?) for a week or two after I return. The added perspective I get from the vacation — the perspective that there’s so much more to life than slogging away at your job — makes the situation worse. Put another way, the average working stiff, such as myself, needs to bust his ass week after week so he can afford to take a nice vacation every once in a while. But, what he’s really doing is making 50 weeks of his life somewhat miserable so he can enjoy a perfect 2 weeks completely relaxing. And when he gets back to work, the vacation he just took makes them realize how bad the other 50 weeks of their life suck. I guess if those 2 weeks weren’t so completely delicious, though, one would never take a vacation, right?

Before I give anyone the totally wrong impression, for the most part I really like my job and realize I have a pretty easy life. But after being completely away from all of the standard work shenanigans for two weeks, it’s hard not to spend a couple hours thinking about how one could pull that off more often without driving themselves into the ground the rest of the year.

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