Take a Vacation Every Year.

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Take the Vacation.

Time Magazine recently posted a news-report as under:


“If you are a working man, do not pass-up your family vacation.
Time off is rejuvenating, according to a research presented to the
American Psychosomatic Society. A study of 18245 men ages
35 to 65 found that, with other factors controlled, men who took
annual vacations were, 22 % less-likely to die of coronary
heart-disease. The findings add to the evidence showing that
cutting stress is good for you.”



What is fascinating about the above report is that Time Magazine
considered this item as news-worthy. We all know that time off
is rejuvenating. We have not to be cajoled into taking our
vacations because there is high incidence of coronary heart
disease in those who do not take an off. But if the truth
were known, many of us do not avail of the vacation. The
USA is the most vacation starved country in the industrialized
world.

Once again Europe takes the lead. In total hours we work
two months longer in a year than Europeans do. European
workers, after only one year on the job, gets five weeks of
fully paid vacation and this is increased to six weeks after two
years of length of job. And every man takes it. It is
time for us to wise-up. Not only should we be taking
our vacations, we should be lobbying our employers
and the elected representatives, for at least a full month
or more of vacation time every year.

Arrange your schedule so you never have to call your
office when you are on vacation. One of the reasons
we come back from the vacation more exhausted than
when we left is that we spend our time worrying about
work.

We fall into the trap of thinking that things cannot go
on without us. At times we are afraid that others will
move on and we shall lag behind.

Let go off all those non-sense ideas and take your
full vacation time. Stop worrying about what
is happening back at the office. Nothing is going
to happen as you feared.

Forget the above. You are not the kind to take vacation.
At the very least in your health interest, please promise
yourself that you will never brag about not availing
a vacation.