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Coming Back From Vacation As a Tightly Wound Person Is No Fun
I will turn anything into an obsession.
I love taking time off from my life and shutting everything off, but I hadn’t done it in two years and a half. I hadn’t so much as left the city of Buenos Aires during that time.
Everyone I knew was already traveling, but it didn’t feel right to me with the risk of the virus still high. And given what had happened in 2020 and 2021, with the Argentinian government closing the borders and not allowing people back home due to fear of new variants, I’d say I was right to be scared.
I just came back from seeing my family in Finland on Sunday, and I can say a vacation was definitely necessary. While I wrote some stories in my time there, I largely didn’t follow the news. I took a break from the world, for the first time in years.
And I was able to relax, most of the time. I tried not to make too many plans for my time there — despite how hard it is when you haven’t seen your family in three and a half — and just take the time to unwind my brain.
But coming back, I noticed what I’m really excellent at is getting myself tightly wound again. Because not doing anything for a month means there’s so much to catch up on when I come back.
