Every Day Can Be A Vacation

Take a vacation.It may save your life. | Real Life Practice. This is a good article about the benefits of vacations and the connection between unrelenting work and heart disease. There are two corollaries to this that should be discussed, however. The first involves the nature of work. I am reminded of an episode of the original Star Trek in which Scotty is found reading technical manuals when he is supposed to be on vacation. Upon being questioned by Captain Kirk he replies that reading technical manuals IS his vacation. So, if you are always doing something you enjoy (remember FutureLawyer's rule: "If you aren't having fun, you shouldn't be doing it"), you will always be on vacation. The second point is that a well lived life can be partly a vacation every day. Anyone can take time to do something they enjoy sometimes during a typical day. Revel in the small pleasures: a cup of coffee in the morning, a few minutes with the parrots before beginning work, spending an hour with a new computer or gadget, these are a few of MY favorite things. Find yours, and you will never need a scheduled vacation.