The Trouble With Trips
Trips, vacations, and the like are wonderful and problematic.
For some reason, my mind associates taking a trip and/or a vacation as a next step or some sort of progression of my life. I find myself, in the time leading up to a trip/vacation, developing an I-no-longer-care-at-all-about-anything-current attitude, which I suppose is due to the misconception that I am leaving all of the current anythings behind. While it is true that current anythings are being left behind, my brain does not wish to allow the reality of the situation (that I will, in fact, be returning from the trip/vacation and, thus, will need to pick up where I left off, so I shouldn't leave too big of a mess) to be present in my thoughts.
This makes me wonder... is it just me? Or do we all have that sense of "moving on" from the current when we take a trip or vacation?
Sadly, trips and vacations are not permanent. They are not "next steps" to something other than the current. They are simply breaks: short periods of time away from whatever your life is.
Why then do we desire trips and vacations so much? Or, again, is this just me?
I require time away from my life. A lot of time away, actually... however, when I return, my mind does this rather bizarre thing and tells me that I'm unfulfilled regardless of if I had a fulfilling trip/vacation or not.
Is this just me?
The problem here is that I think I am programmed to continue on. I require "next steps" and life in general is not conducive to moving on from the current.
You have to return to your job. You have to return to paying bills. You have to return to the people that you left when you went away.
Or do you?
For some reason, my mind associates taking a trip and/or a vacation as a next step or some sort of progression of my life. I find myself, in the time leading up to a trip/vacation, developing an I-no-longer-care-at-all-about-anything-current attitude, which I suppose is due to the misconception that I am leaving all of the current anythings behind. While it is true that current anythings are being left behind, my brain does not wish to allow the reality of the situation (that I will, in fact, be returning from the trip/vacation and, thus, will need to pick up where I left off, so I shouldn't leave too big of a mess) to be present in my thoughts.
This makes me wonder... is it just me? Or do we all have that sense of "moving on" from the current when we take a trip or vacation?
Sadly, trips and vacations are not permanent. They are not "next steps" to something other than the current. They are simply breaks: short periods of time away from whatever your life is.
Why then do we desire trips and vacations so much? Or, again, is this just me?
I require time away from my life. A lot of time away, actually... however, when I return, my mind does this rather bizarre thing and tells me that I'm unfulfilled regardless of if I had a fulfilling trip/vacation or not.
Is this just me?
The problem here is that I think I am programmed to continue on. I require "next steps" and life in general is not conducive to moving on from the current.
You have to return to your job. You have to return to paying bills. You have to return to the people that you left when you went away.
Or do you?