Just reading about some friends who are having a wonderful
vacation on the other side of the states and thought about what a vacation is.
A vacation is an escape from reality.
An entire industry revolves around creating a fantasy world
for vacations. Travel by a multitude of variations, stay in luxurious settings,
dine on the finest cuisine, be pampered like royalty and spend more than you
ever imagined.
We work and save for months for a few days in a dream
world. Like a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, we create delusional
thoughts that a week in a fantasyland will make our mundane reality worthwhile.
Now a change
of scenery is always refreshing and breaking the routine can recharge the
internal battery. A vacation can be an adventure to try new things or travel to
places that are educational.
We even form holidays to enforce our love of make believe.
Valentine’s Day will bring us love, Halloween will allow us to dress up,
Thanksgiving offers us abundance and Christmas give us an excuse to pay too
much for presents we will never use. Add alcohol to the mix and you’ve got a
fantasy party.
Are we so disappointed at the face in the mirror that we
fantasize about the perceived celebrity within us? Traveling to Vegas or New
York City can drown our day-to-day life in bright lights and fast action. Yet
there is always a time when reality hits and the daily grind of paying the
bills, fixing the kid’s lunch, sitting in endless meetings, and listening to
the constant complaints rears it’s ugly head.
Even the reality shows that are all the rage on television
are staged. How many good looking young people do you see wandering the aisles
of the grocery store with camera and microphones all around them? Perhaps life
is just too difficult to handle without escapism?
We live with the perception that if we surround ourselves
with the items of fame, celebrity, or anything else sold to us by our icons; we
too can live the life of Reilly. Yet all the celebrities and stars of the
golden screen every worry about the car being in the shop or your kids doctor’s
appointment or annual review or that pimple on the end of your nose.
Just keeping it real.
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