Holidays are something for many to live up to. It already starts with the anticipation of planning the trip. Where will we go this year? What do we take with us? How are we going to keep the kids busy in the backseat this year? The car trip there is also enjoyable for me. I love to see how the landscape changes again and again, to come up with fun games for the children and above all to dream away and fantasize about the approaching holiday destination. The holiday is now over and my anticipation has turned into the same daily stress as before the holiday.
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Everything is possible and nothing has to be done on holiday. In the morning we take it easy, every day we eat ice cream, we stroll through nice towns, we swim very often, play a lot of games, often go out for dinner and enjoy the sun on our skin. Great to get away from everything and everyone for a while, to just be busy with our family. We get to know a new landscape and get to know a different culture. Just being in the here and now with our thoughts, enjoying the moment, that gives peace.
When the end comes in sight, something starts to gnaw at me, a gloomy feeling arises. Now we will have to wait another whole year for this best time of the year. I get rid of the negative feeling as much as possible and enjoy every moment of vacation that I have left. During the car ride home I try to think about all the fun that the Netherlands has to offer me.
Arriving at home, it is time to catch up on the long journey, but the next day it is time to unpack all your belongings. Meanwhile, the children are enjoying playing with the toys they have missed. It looks like a bomb has exploded. The house is full of bags, unpacked things that still need a place and toys. I hear the noise of the over-enthusiastic children. So I really can't stand that! After three weeks of complete rest, I immediately feel 'stressed' again.
The 'normal life' continues. When the holidays are over, people ask you how it was. You talk about it briefly and then chat about other things. Then we go back to the places we've been hundreds of times, we do laundry again, we turn on the alarm for the oh-so-familiar time and we go back to school and work.
It takes me a bit of time, but then I don't think about the last holiday and I can just enjoy everyday life again, fully charged with new energy. Vacation is also so much fun, because it's not something you do every day, because it's so rare. Therefore it is good as it is. I'll go back to it and occasionally dream about next year's holiday 😉 .
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