Vacation time!

Vacation time for school kids would soon start  in India. It’s around this time that the working parents try to use their leave balance to plan a vacation with their kids.

So here’s a list of benefits that taking a vacation brings:

1.  Quality Family time: Family bonding is one of the main reasons why one should take a vacation with their loved ones. Especially because of the fast pace of life and stressful lives that we generally  lead these days. A vacation helps focus on the most important aspect of your life for which we struggle to make ends meet. Our family! For singles who plan a solo trip, you connect with the most important person on the earth aka You!! 

2. Sense to your slogging: This may be applicable more to the working class. We lead a life where we work hard, earn money, slog to sustain our life and make something of it. We do things that are supposed to be done routinely. Kids have to study, elderly people have to lead a mundane routine life. Thus, the welcome break of a vacation helps us to make sense of all our slogging during the normal course of life. 

3. Time for reflection:Sometimes we are so caught up in our own lives that we do not even have the time to wait and smell the roses, to reflect on where our life is heading to. Sometimes all it takes is a change from the daily routine to get an epiphany to what we really want from life. Thus helping us to plan our lives ahead.

4. Open doors to a new world: If our vacation involves sight-seeing and visiting new places, then it’s an awesome chance to enhance our horizons to new cultures, way of living, food, language and generally help us engage in a life different from ours. Sometimes an added benefit is, we also learn to be grateful for the small things you take so much for granted. I remember visiting Leh Ladakh (a small beautiful place in Kashmir, India) and feeling immensely grateful for all the food available back home when i saw the lack of availability of fresh fruits and veggies all throughout the year. Realised we take some things for granted and forget to be grateful for what we have. 

5. Renewed vigour for routine: After a vacation, we come back energetic with a renewed vigour for tackling the routine life and its' stresses. We are refreshed to go back to the grind knowing that it’s just for some more time. We soon can start planning our next vacation!

After all, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy ☺☺

PS: Yours truly is so excited about the upcoming vacation and family time planned!!