Only 6 working days to go!!!!
Frankly, I feel quite nervous to remind myself that we have got only 6 more working days to the long break of 5 months and 8 days. As I have been cultivated as a rat more than a decade, it is not easy for me to accept this odd freedom. Getting out of daily routine that I have been always wanted pushes me into uncertainty and nervousness instead of joyfulness. How funny is this? When you don’t have, you desperately want to have it but when you finally get what you want, you suddenly don’t know how to deal with it. That’s exactly how I am feeling at the moment. Please don’t get me wrong. I am completely excited as much as I am nervous. To moderate my nervousness and also to reinstate my confidence on our decision, it is the time to remind myself why we decided to have this extraordinary break.
1. Have a break: Simply, we need a break. We have always wanted to have a decent length of break. As most of our colleagues, when they return from their holidays, first thing they do is thinking about the next one. We all seem to be starving on breaks from our everyday life. More than a decade, since we finished Universities and started being office bugs, we haven’t had breaks which seemed to be long enough to revive ourselves. Especially, last couple of years, we have been through quite difficult time with personal matters and also our career path so we need a break desperately. I believe that this long break will refresh and energize our body and soul to manage our life more cheerfully.
2. Make a dream come true: As we all know that it is not easy to make our life to live how you want to live or do what you want to do. However, it is not impossible. I believe that we all are entitled to live how we want to live and do what we want to do for living but most of occasions reality doesn’t allow us to live on our dreams. When we first talked about the 5-6 month break, I was not really sure if it can be an achievable dream. We were dreaming, planning and waiting for a chance to take a step towards to the plan, and finally we made our dream come true. I am very proud of ourselves that we have tried to get a chance for doing what we really want to do so this break is one of most remarkable achievements to us.
3. Have a time to think: I have been feeling that I haven’t had enough time to think about my life and future for a while. While we are struggling with our daily routine, we intend to ignore or postpone to think about our future and dreams. Even though we are conscious on the matters, daily life exhausts us to take any actions to achieve them. As I mentioned earlier, one of my favourite Chinese proverbs is “ if you want to make yourself full, you need to make yourself empty first.” I do realise that I need a change in my life and I do need some time to think about it seriously. Therefore, I expect that this break will allow me to have the time that I have been badly wishing to have.
4. New experiences: I have always liked travelling and I have travelled many places with my travel buddy, my husband. However, once or twice a year to go somewhere for a short period didn’t satisfy me enough. I want to visit more places , see more things and experience diverse culture and living life in different places. I feel starved about experiencing new knowledge and cultural differences, and I am scared of spending most of my youth while I am sitting in the office and bury the priceless time. I will see and learn as much as I can from this travel. I will visit 14 countries and over 30 places and each country and each place will wide awake me. Whenever I travel, I am amazed by the eye opening experiences and the surprises make me grow.
5. Keep a good relationship/friendship : During the trip, my husband and I will celebrate our 12th year together. Since I met him, I have been travelling many places with him and every single trip was extremely enjoyable and memorable. While we are travelling together, we share remarkable experiences together and the experiences became a part of our memory to revisit when we are back to reality. When you share a same experience with someone, you can get a special connection between you and the person and the connection make your relationship stronger and healthier. I am having a great bond with my husband and it has been deeper and stronger as time goes by. I truly believe that all the trips we have made together is one of the key supporters that helped us to have healthy and happy relationship. Therefore, this long break will blossom more pleasure on our relationship.
6. Life is too short : Life is too short to waste. Who will disagree with this unchangeable true? Yesterday, one of Australian famous actor passed away and he was only 51. Unquestionably he would have a fame and wealth that ordinary people desperately wish to have but they didnt help him to be alive. I don't want to leave things what I really want to do to 'later' or 'one day'. What I want to do can have totally different value 'later' and the 'one day'. I do want to enjoy what I want to do as much as I can when I am young and healthy. If we couldn't make a decision and put this journey aside for being a rat race and having a comfortable life this time, I don't think we ever will be brave enough to pursue our dream. Life is too short to waste and there are too many thing to do in this world.
While I am refreshing myself with the reasons for our break, I feel already far better than before and my heart is full of excitement. If you agree with my reasons, I encourage you to plan a break, too. It doesn't have to be long as ours. Taking a break will calm you down to revive yourself and refresh yourself to find new opportunities to improve your life. Are you ready? YES, I AM!!!!
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