Like all of them, I am not going to say that I need a break from my job. Nope! I love what I do, even I love my hobbies and not doing what I do even for one day, kind of makes me feel like a day something is missing. Not only has the job put food on the table, it has given me a life and a lifestyle and really questions my thought process at times and challenges me. I don’t want a break from that.

Though yes, I want a break from my habits. That culturally ingrained habit of waking up and doing things that is like a bad habit.

I don’t want to wake up and spend time having a breakfast, and then make lunch and then prepare dinner – what if I don’t want to? I just want to eat a meal in the day and a smaller meal in the evening and then spend rest of the night time; either reading or meditating or treating myself to a rare dessert.

I don’t want to sleep by 10:30 or 11:00. I would love to sleep by 3 and then wake by 8 AM and have a considerable slow morning. I have noticed I function better when I have read until late in the night and I wake up late in the morning. I know medically it is not up to the mark but I just want to break the mundaneness of things.

I would like to take a short trip – not a huge vacation. A very small one of a day or half. I am a creature of comfort and habit and if you displace me from my location, the strain starts showing on my face. Though I love going to new places, it is all for the experience. I like to stay for a few days, mingle with the local people, eat local food, know the local stories and be a part of the ecosystem there. Only then it makes sense for me to take huge vacations.

I believe traveling and seeing new places should be a learning experience and not just about seeing touristy places and then go back.

Having said all that I just want to experience things differently. I don’t want to take a break from anything but anything out of the ordinary is good with me. I am content with that.