Back from vacation

It’s been a week since I got back from a FANTABULOUS vacation

Believe me when I say the flight from Paris back to Dubai was both mentally and physically challenging. Mentally coz….I jus didn’t wanna come back! Physically coz apparently my body followed my mind and I couldn’t bring myself to walk towards the flight gate…my legs jus wouldn’t obey me!!

Anyways all in all it was fantastic….in fact it was so over whelming that I haven’t yet found words to describe how I feel. I mean London, Germany, Brussels, Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and France….all in 20 days was too much but so exhilarating!

I was so tensed and tight like a wound up spring before I left….totally frustrated with life….a life which was typically work – home – work – home – work ….and now I’m in a little dreamland of my own – planning my next vacation.

Well, I will be going through my experience in each country in future posts, as I go through the videos (having seen so much in a matter of 3 weeks…I need a recap).

However, this is a note going on to everyone who is reading this post, if you feel you suffer from any of the below mentioned symptoms please…TAKE A BREAK!

Symptoms:
1. You are thinking of work first thing you wake up
2. You are still thinking of work while brushing
3. When people ask you ‘You don’t look well. Are you alright?’ out of concern, you retort with, ‘No! This is a new look I am trying.’
4. You scream your lungs out lashing at everyone around you at home…coz YOUR room is messy
5. All of the above

This was more or less my situation before I left for work. I had a problem with unwinding. I jus couldn’t do it. Work had taken over my life. I couldn’t bring a blank spot in my head even if my life depended on it. The only opportunity I had of taking it easy was when I went out with friends or family during the weekend.

I can tell you of so many msn chat sessions when I have over-reacted to simple msgs only coz I felt the tone was rude, which was completely my imagination.

I also know of people who have done the same….reacted in a large way to simple things.

To all those people I would suggest take a vacation. You earned it and more than that you NEED it. A vacation doesn’t mean a holiday where you sit at home or go out with friends and have yourself reachable by your office on your mobile phone.

No! Please take your self to a remote place where you don’t have a choice but to enjoy the sights and sounds are you.

I was never a very artsy person. Poetry, paintings, history, nature, landscape, etc….all went above my head. But on my vacation I realized a new side of me. One that made me spend 4 hours in the Louvre museum…ok I slept for half hour (I’ll tell you where later – might come handy if your planning a trip to Paris), made me enjoy the scenic beauty of Geneve and the beaches in Nice and the drive to Monte Carlo. I was staying up late…not coz I couldn’t sleep, but coz I was out seeing Rome by night….the magnanimous Colosseum, the roman baths….these were things that I never thought I would understand and there I was in London, standing at the Victoria memorial and actually interpreting what each sculpture represented.

So believe me when I say you need a vacation, away from everyone you know, to unwind you. Coz it really works…