Vacation Review – What I Learned From Taking a Week Off

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For the first time in the at least ten years my wife children and I took a vacation that did not involve going to see someone else.  We went to St. Augustine Florida for three days then relaxed at our local beach and attractions for the rest of the week.

One of the big things was staying off the computer for the entire week.  I think this helped me focus more and decide on some other things I want to do.  Earlier this year we traveled to see my wife’s father.  I made sure to take the computer, and blogged while I was gone.  I used the excuse that I just wanted to have it to check email but could not leave it alone.  I think that addiction is broken and I have already turned off twitter this morning because it is tiring to hear the same people say the same things they were saying before I left.  Sorry twitter, I’m just not that in to you.

I walk too fast.  I look at walking as a means to get somewhere not a time to enjoy the company of those I am with.  I was told on my return that I had walked past a good friends brother while on one of my walking missions.  I never heard him say hello, and never paid attention to where I was going. I have begun to walk slower and be more attentive when I am out.  Spending a week walking with people that are at least a foot or two shorter than I am helped since they can’t keep up with my pace, and my pace may be contributing to my back pain.

I don’t have to please anyone but God.  I have tried for a long time to write and act like I thought people wanted to read and see.  I saw while I was away that I can not be someone else.  I can’t write what I don’t know or understand, and I can’t be some one I am not.  I know this sounds like a confessional, and in a way it is, but if my confession helps someone else see then it is worth the time putting it out in the open.