One year ago today I wrote a blog post entitled Find Your Vacation , had a quote attached that said,” find a vacation in every day” Even if it’s just going for a walk or grabbing a cup of coffee. That old post popped up in my memories(thanks facebook) what struck me to be funny about having that reminder was that I didn’t actually need a special reminder of what I was blogging about a year ago today but more so I needed gentle nudge reminding myself to do what I was writing as a suggestion for myself and others.
Gosh I don’t know about the rest of you but I think I need a vacation just from the holidays. It’s a new year, new beginnings and well I’m still here feeling all the tiredness from 2024.
A year later I have a much better understanding of that quote I blogged about. As I’m sitting here and writing this I can completely understand why the term “vacation” doesn’t literally mean that you have to pack a bag, book a hotel or trip. It doesn’t have to be something so big that planning goes into, or meal prep, wondering what the weather is going to be and planning around a forecast. Finding a vacation in every day is just as simple as taking a breath. We do it every day and don’t realize it.
It’s about down time as much as it’s about exploring and doing something exciting. Finding a vacation in every day is letting the dishes sit while you watch a movie with your partner or family and or friends. No work has to go into it.
Finding a vacation in every day is about just leaving everything else alone and doing something in place of it, the vacation part comes easily when we realize it doesn’t have to be productive, but rather it can be simply about doing something you may need at the time. That something can be nothing. It can be rest, a walk, that much needed cup of coffee spent in silence. That moment where you are not engaged in your social media but fixed on what is happening in the present.
That moment when you are too tired to take a bowl to the kitchen, so you sit it down on the floor. You get comfortable and watch a movie and then …the perfect vacation moment for the day.
That’s exactly how it happened.
We had vegetarian chili for supper. I woke up so hungry for this that on my way to work this morning I texted my wife and said, “please can you make vegetarian chili?!” I’m sure she was surprised to be getting a food txt from me in the morning as I pretty much eat the same thing everyday for supper. (salad 🥗, mandarin oranges, some cheese on top and cucumber salad dressing) so an “ask” on my part for supper is not something that comes very often.
This chili sure hit the spot , it went great with my salad 😊👍 but the vacation moment followed effortlessly. I was exhausted. I didn’t get up to do the dishes or clean anything up. I sat that bowl down and then got comfortable and just simply watched a movie and thought about nothing. I had, (we had)a vacation moment. Just like that. Without even realizing it.
I didn’t look for that moment, that moment looked for me, that moment found me and I listened. It found us, and we both listened.
Can we have some more of that please 😊
Do the simple thing, and don’t forget to find a vacation in your every day 😊
Thanks for reading
Rhonda Roy
There’s G2B a better way
My wife knows that I don’t ever leave the kitchen dishes sit. Actually drives me crazy. She just looked at me and said , “am I supposed to do the dishes?” Lol
“No, hun! lol Kyle is doing them !”😊
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