Sometimes we don’t even have the strength to get out of bed and make coffee, let alone go to our laptops. We console ourselves with the thought that it’s not laziness or yesterday’s workout, but a long-standing lack of adventure and travel. Here are 8 signs that it’s time to go on vacation.
Fatigue
If every night before going to bed you remember a lullaby from “Goodnight, kids,” and then you can not sleep and endlessly scroll through the list of work and household tasks in your head – it’s definitely time for a vacation.
If you’re tired to the point where a night of sleep doesn’t help, it’s time for a break.
Hiding from everyone and everything without a working laptop and the Internet, but with the usual conveniences you can in the glamping: steaming in a vat, drinking herbal tea on your own veranda, not thinking about anything, and falling asleep to the sound of the forest overhead.
Difficulties With a Trivial Choice
And this isn’t about an apartment, a country to live in, or a potential partner, but about more simple and down-to-earth things. If you have no way to choose cheese at the store (even from the ten remaining varieties, half of which contain milk fat substitutes and palm oil, and two are definitely unpalatable), which online slots to play, and decide what to make for breakfast, oatmeal or eggs – we have questions for your vacation schedule.
Loss of Patience and Irritability
Snapping at coworkers, family members, friends, and even your beloved cat is another signal fire of vacation longing. Irritability and the transformation of cute sass into snake venom on any, even minor occasion, whether it’s an innocent question about a long-running task or getting together with friends for a walk, are clear hints: a reset is needed.
Zero Creativity
The standard weekly suggestion to jot down ideas in the work chat leads to a stupor, and a friend’s suggestion to come up with something interesting for the weekend – a storm of indignation? Don’t be alarmed: Most likely, the bright little man inside you is just tired.
Studies show that living in a foreign culture and adapting to it promotes creativity. It’s unlikely that you can fully immerse yourself in the aesthetics of the Ottoman Empire or understand the essence of Tibetan Buddhism in a week – for this, you need to live in the country for at least a couple of months. However, even short contact with another culture will give impetus to creativity and new ideas.
Inordinate Procrastination
“I’ll get up and do it, I’ll definitely get up and do it now…or I’ll sleep first and then get up and do it…” If procrastination grows to unprecedented proportions, and the simplest task causes the desire to go to social media or read a book, this is another sign from the brain: I want to go on vacation, let’s go.
Face as in the Passport Photo
Remember the old joke: if the photo album is small and thin, and the picture is one and ugly – it’s a passport. So if your face begins to resemble a photo in your main document, go on vacation. But keep in mind: a trip from the bedroom to the living room doesn’t count as a trip, and a trip to the next store for pancakes is a proper walk.
Even a couple of relaxing days will help to overload. A hammam, a massage, a pool, and a delicious dinner that you don’t have to cook – and the photos stop scaring the doom in your eyes.
A Lot of Entertainment Spending
Stores, restaurants, cabs, and the voice in your head saying “Let’s at least have coffee and croissants in front of City Hall, since you haven’t gone anywhere in ages” are all attempts by your brain to cope with stress and psychological exhaustion by getting dopamine quickly.
Instead of buying things you don’t need or losing money gambling, spend that money on a well-deserved vacation.
A Break in the “Healthy Routine”
Everyone at times resembles that same pony from a children’s cartoon, running around in circles, hopping to work by nine and counting circles in our minds: work-store-home-sleep-work-stove.
Nevertheless, psychologists distinguish the so-called “healthy routine”, which helps to organize our life and eliminates the need to make hundreds of decisions every day. All aspects are determined in advance: what time you need to get out in order to have time to take the child to kindergarten and get to the office, how much milk is enough for the family for a couple of breakfasts, what time an unpleasant phone call will end, when it is time to go to the gym to work out with the traffic, and when – to order food for the cats. Fewer decisions, less stress from making them, more confidence in routine actions, and more free time – no one thinks about what time to set the alarm clock so as not to oversleep at work, it has long been set for the right time.