I'm home!
And now I understand the nature of my boss's relationship at home and the potential for fun a lifestyle of traveling has. I also now have a taste for what kind of energy doing something like this really takes. Even the downtime while working abroad or just away from what one considers home takes such a toll on one's energy.
Think about that. You're basically either totally on, sometimes by yourself, in front of an audience for several days. After that, you still have to interact with people in situations that are familiar and yet require a certain amount of energy in order to communicate, at times, or figure out where you are or where you're going.
In my downtime on the day before I left, after I went with Aktar to the station, I just wandered. I got out at one of the stations on the way home that had not been to yet, turned on some metal and shuffled my feet slowly going from point A to point B. At times, I stopped, sat on a bench and just absorbed the world around me. Part of me wanted to sleep, part of me just wanted to just exist. There was a grand temptation to go straight back to my hotel and collapse. And yet, there was this even stronger push to go out and enjoy what of Brussels I had left since I would only be there for so long.
Think about that. Going and doing things because you are there for a short period of time makes enjoying an area obligatory in a sense. It drains energy from you instead of filling you with the energy of pleasure and enjoyment. Certainly, it does fill you with a semblance of that. But on a limited time frame, a vacation sometimes just isn't a vacation. Thankfully, I was in an area where I had no obligations to see or spend time with anyone, which we all know turns a vacation into work and then we get back home needing a vacation after our vacation, right?
Still can't wait to do it again.
Next stop: Houston.
Think about that. You're basically either totally on, sometimes by yourself, in front of an audience for several days. After that, you still have to interact with people in situations that are familiar and yet require a certain amount of energy in order to communicate, at times, or figure out where you are or where you're going.
In my downtime on the day before I left, after I went with Aktar to the station, I just wandered. I got out at one of the stations on the way home that had not been to yet, turned on some metal and shuffled my feet slowly going from point A to point B. At times, I stopped, sat on a bench and just absorbed the world around me. Part of me wanted to sleep, part of me just wanted to just exist. There was a grand temptation to go straight back to my hotel and collapse. And yet, there was this even stronger push to go out and enjoy what of Brussels I had left since I would only be there for so long.
Think about that. Going and doing things because you are there for a short period of time makes enjoying an area obligatory in a sense. It drains energy from you instead of filling you with the energy of pleasure and enjoyment. Certainly, it does fill you with a semblance of that. But on a limited time frame, a vacation sometimes just isn't a vacation. Thankfully, I was in an area where I had no obligations to see or spend time with anyone, which we all know turns a vacation into work and then we get back home needing a vacation after our vacation, right?
Still can't wait to do it again.
Next stop: Houston.