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April 04, 2005
The By-Products of Vacation
It is an absolutely foreign experience to me to be 'on vacation' other than the traditionally defined period of time from June to August normally referred to as summer. Since entering the working world about two years ago I realized that I no longer get two months off but rather two weeks, the only up-side to this forced agreement being that I am able to choose when I may redeem them. The inevitable yang to this yin is that I would like to use those fourteen days during the summer so my freedom of choice for furlough is in essence, not really needed. I thought about trying to explain this to my bosses but was reassured that they wouldn't be up for bartering away an additional six weeks for my willing reliquishment of volition.
Besides actually being on vacation right now my thoughts on it have also been prompted to my current visit at Cedarville University. I myself attended Messiah College but there are more parallels than not in the genre of predominately white, private Christian schools of America. They do have their differences but to the uninitiated the vehement disagreements on how one should be educated within this smaller caste makes about as much sense as the endless denominations present in the religion they base their mission statements on.
It is common to hear that college is in fact the 'best years of your life' but the more I am distant from the experience the more I disagree with it. They certainly were wonderful years but I find it depressing to think that my prime has passed and all I look forward to is the senior discount and death. College was a wonderful time to grow but it was only a treasured side quest on the greater trek of life, not the crown jewel on my entire existence.
I will be home soon, tomorrow night in fact, and as usual I have had time to reflect and sort of resuffle my priorities and goals for the coming months. My hope is that I can concoct a balance of both achievement and rest where I can afterwards claim that in its wake the nonpareil episodes of life effortlessly followed.
Posted by Jon at April 4, 2005 09:25 PM