I’m lying on a table. The scents of jungle flowers, and citrus are heavy in the air. Soothing music plays in the background. I am being massaged. My travel buddy suggested it would be the perfect way to end the vacation and prepare for the trip back.
This is not the first time that I’ve gotten a massage but was certainly better than the last time. Back in 2013 I got a massage at Mohonk Mountain lodge. The massage itself was great but the problem was that I had never had a massage in my life and I was more than a little nervous.
This time it was different. I knew what to expect and enjoyed a 90 minute long deep tissue massage. As I was being worked on I had time to reflect. Not just on the past week but the past year and my life in general.
Life had been good this past year. No denying that. But I had many things left undone and many goals left incomplete. Even if I had completed these goals, the pressures and strains of life had carved deep into me.
The point of this vacation had been to undo those strains and pressures. To let some of those difficulties in life resolve themselves and just to let my mind and body relax and breathe. In that it was successful.
I usually write these things up at the end of the trip or back home days after I get back. This time I can’t. I don’t have the time. I will be in the midst of finishing the year and preparing for the next as December draws to a close. But now I don’t mind. I now have a better perspective on the way forward than the perspective I had a week ago.
2015 will eclipse 2014 in accomplishments and will be a breakout year for me in several ways. I can’t say all the credit goes to this vacation but I have to give it its fair due. This has really opened my eyes in several ways and let me see the way forward.
Till next we meet, Vacation. I don’t know where it will be or when but I look forward to it.
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