Vacations
I believe everyone should take a vacation every once in a while. How often do you dream of that nice vacation to Florida or California? Do you ever wonder why vacations are desirable? It’s because they relieve stress from everyday lives.
Everyday in our world, no matter how you go about your life, you will become stressed since stress is unavoidable. Stress has many harmful effects. Some include: body aches, trouble concentrating, and poor relationships with people, harmful eating habits, and in the worst cases can lead to extreme acts of violence. Going on a vacation can help relieve stress, because it helps you temporarily escape the everyday places that you see that may be causing you stress.
Another way in which taking a vacation is beneficial is that you can bond with your family, or friends, depending on who you take with you. There’s nothing better than hanging out with your family or your good buddies away from home. When on vacation, there is no one around to distract you while you have a conversation, there is no need to worry about forgetting to say or do something with your family or friends, since it’s not like they will just leave. Also, vacations are a perfect time to enjoy activities such as fishing, hiking, biking, jogging, bonfires, cruising, or other activities together.
In taking a vacation, you also have an opportune chance to try and see new things. Vacations always come with plenty of surprises, and there’s always that story that you can tell everyone about when you come back. Also, you can try going to different places around the area. If you are staying at Florida, try going to Disneyworld. Check some places out. Even if you don’t like what you see, you know what’s there. Also in trying new things, it keeps you away from activities that negatively impact you such as drugs and alcohol, gang activities, and other illegal activities.
In short, taking a vacation helps reduce stress, keeping you emotionally healthy. Vacations also help you connect with your friends and family, to rekindle the relationship, or just enhance it. Vacations also give you an opportunity to see the world outside of your daily community, which lets you see and experience great things.
March 30th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Zach,
I agree that relaxation is important. I love taking vacations, but I don’t always get the opportunity to do so. I find that looking back at fond memories, however, allows me to enjoy and relax when I can’t take a vacation. I agree that connecting with your family is important too.
Mrs. Reed
March 31st, 2008 at 9:17 am
Dear Zach,
Hello from Dubai! I’m here helping to set up Michigan State University’s newest home. We will be offering several undergraduate and graduate degree programs here beginning next year.
I was just meeting with Brendan Mullan, who will direct this campus, and we were talking about this very subject! I was asking Brendan if he had read former Secretary of Labor Rober Reich’s book, THE FUTURE OF WORK. You were probably too young to remember this, but when Clinton was President, Reich did the almost unthinkable–he willingly resigned! He felt he didn’t have enough time to do anything other than work.
Later the book he released made his position clearer. He believes that some of our best ideas come from “cross fertilization” that happens when we are doing something very different. For instance, you might be fed up with doing math because you just can’t figure out square roots. You’re in the back yard, putting a new roof on the dog’s house, and suddenly it becomes clear.
It’s not exactly an endorsement for a vacation, but he, Brendan, and I all agree that time away from work is essential to being a good worker.
Thanks, Zach, for sharing your excellent thinking with us!
Janet (Associate Dean, College of Arts & Letters, MSU)
March 31st, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Thank you! And I agree. When I get stressed out from my day, I go and do something to get rid of it such as exercise, write, or even sleep. Just an hour or 2 away from the situation that stresses you out helps out a lot when you try to face the situation a second time.