Holidays

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Holidays are the days that one spends away from one’s routine work. They do not always mean the act not doing ant important work, but are meant to be only for relaxation. Holidays may be combined with even physical exertion. The important fact to be remembered about holidays is that they should include work that is not normally done by a person. The ways in which such holidays are spent depend upon the temperament and even moods of different individuals.

A person who spends the whole day in intellectual pursuits like a teacher, or a lawyer or an executive toiling over daily financial problems may feel quite relaxed and even happy when he spends a few hours in this small garden. He feels the joy of creation when what he was tended grows into a plant and yields flowers or fruit. This work, through physically tiresome takes his mind away from this daily worries or avocation. This can be termed a holiday. Some others may prefer to spend their holidays sitting in their gardens, under the shade of the cool trees and pour their mind over a play of writers like Shakespeare or Galsworthy, or poems of Keats or shelly, or novels of Hardy or Dickens, or the charms of Somerset Maugham… these people will feel that these hours spent in the company of great writers is the best form of enjoying a holiday.

Holidays can also be properly enjoyed in the company or friends of relatives. Here again, the psychology of the people plays an important part. This enjoyment may be in an out door excursion to well known sports or sitting by the fireside, exchanging their views on matters that interest them.

Busy executive or businessmen or others who toil to make their economic life happy may find that the best holiday for them would be playing in the company of their children. This gives them a mental peace which they cannot other wise get.

Holidays thus can be enjoyed in different way. The only thing that matters is that it should relax the mind so that the ``holidays’’ – can be fresh to tackle their usual problems.