IT’S AN ‘away-from-it-all experience’. It’s staying ‘far away from the maddening crowd’. Some say, “It’s staying cut off from the din and bustle of the pestering duties and killing responsibilities,” There is yet another school of holidayers who believe that holidaying is going to places and encountering excitements and differences. The attitude towards holidaying keeps on changing, and in this process, its very purpose looks hijacked by many external forces that come to play the moment one thinks of taking a break for a while.
How many people come home holidaying? How many people feel that they are in a holiday mood when they are actually undergoing the same? Do our personal concerns leave us the day we pack up and move out for a holiday trip? Lucky are those who have a kind of attitude to look at things from a distance and enjoy a sort of vicarious holidaying. This is not possible for many because most of us do not try to differentiate ourselves from the differences we are surrounded by. The fact is that we get merged with the ambience we live in so indistinguishably that we feel at times that the days are getting unattractive and it is time we had a break. What happens when we take a break? Virtually, nothing. We desperately try to redeem ourselves from the ruts we are in.
So long as that rut remains, there in us to invite us again into its very same old ways, things are not going to change. All the extravaganzas and exoticas, the holiday industry offers us are but, propaganda and they are as desperate as the holidayers themselves because their very business is nothing but a groove, and they keep telling you the same, and the same is falsely endorsed by all those who happen to fall prey to their temptations. Once you are in and have spent a sizeable chunk of money from your pocket, would you tell the rest of the world that the time you had had at a holiday stint was as boring as the very days you were running away from? No. The best way out is to learn to live life like a holiday stint.
In this cosmic dimension, the time we are ordained with is not so long, and the very same time is rapt in a rigorous material regime where we are tools and dyes that get used either by others or by some external agencies or forces. One among them is this holiday hawkers and their temptations. Again we fall prey to this mysterious spell of the unknown and we go on holidaying, doing nothing to alter our mindset. Our days offer us nothing to worry about or get bored of. It is we who make things worse. What difference does it make when we make our things worse and go for holidaying thinking that the latter is going to offset the former?
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