Lazy summer days

    Klaus

March 27, 2008 by Klaus  
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You don’t get anything for nothing in life. This is the main motto of our life. This is the epigraph of our biography - whether we like it or not.

Allow me to quote the bible again: According to the book of Genesis, after God created the universe in six days, he rested on the seventh day. in other words,He took a vacation. Si if God rested after working for the some period of time, there is no reason, why man, who is finite and limited in his physical strength, should not take a vacation.

Hurray, doing nothing is really something. I hear already many of my ex pat mates saying: We have vacation all day long, since we are living in the Philippines. Congrats guys!!! But that’s not what I am talking about. I mean, doing nothing is really something after a period of hard work. It doesn’t mean, if it regards our children or us. None of us need all our time. i met innumerable kids, who don’t go to dances, gymnastics, piano or trampoline lessons, They don’t want to, and that’s fine with their parents. When the kids are ready, they will surely join a sport or ask to take lessons in something that interests them.

For now, especially during school vacation time off is just time off. Lazy summer days - if we’re not on duty - how cool such days could be; stay outside and so absolutely nothing structured. Go for walks, ride bikes, go to the beach, a park on a picnic. Or stay home drawing (I myself forgot it since years living in the Philippines), playing games, reading books  - and writing, but just for fun.  When a child at the age of 4 or 5, I started writing my first articles and started “composing’ my first  pieces on a piano.  I  still remember, even now those lazy summer days, sitting in the blazing sun (shouldn’t be any more nowadays!), eating a popsicle, getting all sticky, and running away from the bees. Those (old) lazy summer days even turned into lazy winter days in my old Germany home country, and shaped and characterized my whole (especially professional) life.

So guys, enjoy some lazy summer days right now and right here in the Philippines, especially if you’re stressed, overwhelmed or depressed. You really deserved it! It’s rest from occupation, business or activity. Strictly speaking, vacation concerns those, who are in school or studying in colleges or universities. For them vacation is a break from studies. for professionals, however, furlough would be the appropriate term. Anyway: relaxation, meditation, and reinvigoration are badly needed. Life, affected by the “burn-out syndrome” needs to reanimate with energy.

I never thought about it when I became an ex pat living in the Philippines. After a couple of years I learned to take care of my body, spirit and soul… .

About the Author:  Klaus is from Germany, but has been living in the Philippines since the late 1990’s. Klaus is a journalist by trade, having written for a number of newspapers, studied also Publishing House Management and Marketing and has also been a Radio Host here in the Philippines.