I am not really a vacation guy. In fact, I am not even the city bird. I stay in my room for hours, studying, painting, and when nothing, eating. My longest journeys of exploration is usually the terrace where I explore the night sky sipping tea.
It never occurred to me that vacations should be a way of life. Recently, I had to go out of town for a month. Training. In the eyes of training, I found a month of vacation from my routine, my day to day tasks, my room, this blog, my computer and even my closed self. I found a new energy flowing around me in that time.
The vacation caught me hard. Ahmedabad is pretty big for a loner. Where I accommodated, I found friends and friends of friends. All in a life that was carefree and selfless. Each of them taught me that life was all different for everyone of us. Destinies of each of us differ.
Some of us want to be leaders while some want to genuinely follow others and yet maintain a clear sense of confidence. Some of us are bound by money we can spend and some of us don't really care about it. We are what we are because of our difference in destinies. We would be the same if we had to experience the same things, like animals.
After I came back from Ahmedabad, after a month long stay, I realized that the city taught me a lot about learning, enjoying and celebrating life! It all taught me in my own perspective of course, but it sure did.
God, as they say, resided in each of us. We are that missing piece of the puzzle. When we vacate (Take vacations) we make space for amazing God energy to fill that space and energize and revive us. We become the part of him again.
Vacation is thus for emptying the useless junk off our minds and hearts and freely following the life's rule of thumb: Eat, Pray, Love!