Why is it that when I think of ‘holiday’ I imagine time-off, relaxation, time to myself and activities to do at my leisure but as soon as the season arrives, each day brings at least two overlapping activities/wedding invitations/dinners to welcome the season/evening soirees to reminisce the year gone behind/something or the other, every evening.
Not enough that one’s evenings are booked back to back; all this is coupled with an extra load of work to churn out before the long break equaling late evenings at the desk, rushing home to change equaling additional stress on the road (because I’m guessing everyone is going through the same thing) equaling no time-off, little relaxation (if you count falling on the bed late at night because your body is just giving up as relaxation), hardly any time to oneself (either on the road, at a soiree, wedding, dinner or something else) and no activities getting done because; well hey, one is too tired to do anything anyway!
Oh yes, there’s also Christmas shopping for some of us amongst all this and New Year plans to follow suit along with no added pressure of making resolutions you know you are not going to keep.
Why you ask?
Because you are probably too busy not taking time-off to reflect, not relaxed to put your resolution to action, have little time to yourself in order to see if the resolution is working and heck, let’s face it, the activities are running you instead of the other way around anyway!
But somehow, in the end, after all this retrospect, I can’t help but smile to myself and think . . . I like it!
It’s a busy life but someone’s gotta do it! And that someone is me, it’s you and it’s everyone around us.
Happy holidays, Eid Mubarik, Merry Xmas and a busy, hectic, resolute, active New Year!
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