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The sense of vacation.

Published by Esteban Glas on February 12th, 2007 | This post lacks all category except for: personal

I have never regarded vacations as “the two weeks where I can do what I want”. Granted, I can travel (something I love), spend more time with Luciana, and do stuff the schedule I’m tied to the rest of the year wouldn’t normally allow, but I use vacations in another way.

The free time, lack of responsibilities and absence of the always present to do list give me enough “system memory” to try and put things into perspective. How do I feel? What’s bugging me? What makes me happy? What do I want to achieve?

Introspection is not an easy task. Usually there are a lot of things we want to hide from ourselves. Denial. There are decisions we delay, realizations we don’t make. It’s only human. I take vacations as the time where, while watching the sun rise over the sea, I force myself into the task of digging in the dirt.

I have a lot of pending things. Luckily for me I have a wife which is a stone I can grab amidst the worst of storms, thus I have a sense of realization on great part of my personal life. Yet there are other things I need to think deeply about and some choices that might need to be taken on the short or medium run.

Then again, upon some insight I might come to the conclusion that most of the things that bother me are only the result of my inherent unconformity. It is usually that way, it’s the fuel that drives me.

I hope I’ll have more answers upon my return.

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