Take Your Vacation

Take Your Vacation

You need a break.

Take your vacation.

Don't save it
for some other time
that may never come.

Don't count on
a generous buyout
at the end of your employment.

Don't be a martyr
and act as though
you don't really need it.

Don't be a curmudgeon
and criticize others
who use theirs.

Don't waste it
to make money on the side
or finish another project.

Go somewhere you haven't been.
Read a book you haven't have read.
Do nothing and don't worry about it.
Do something and really enjoy it.

Try and remember
exactly who you used to be
when as a child you'd play,
and every new day was
another kind of vacation.

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A vacation is what you take
when you can no longer take
what you've been taking.
~ Earl Wilson

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