Every time I go on vacation I enjoy making a few new friends from different parts of the country, or even the world. Some I just stay friends with for the course of the vacation, while some I choose to keep contact with long after the fun is over. It's nice to get to know people who grew up differently, and have different aspirations, than yourself. You learn a lot about life by simply talking with other people. But to an extent, you get spoiled by getting to spend as much time with these people as you do. You'll never get to spend that much time with them again, unless you plan another vacation together. And the more emotionally attached you get to the people you meet when you're in that state of relaxation on your vacation, the worse off you'll be when you actually go back to your normal lives and try to keep in contact and visit each other.
Vacation Brain is a term I have defined as the person you become when you go off on vacation with people you don't know, and begin to form a relationship with these people, whether it be romantic or friendly.
- Everything seems easier with Vacation Brain.
- Everyone succumbs to the power of Vacation Brain whether or not they know it.
- It has lingering effects for sometimes weeks after a vacation has ended.
- As Vacation Brain wears off, you start to see things more clearly, and you rarely like what you see.
- People rarely are who they are portrayed by their "Vacation Brain selves".
- No one is as free or as serious as they try to be while under the effects of Vacation Brain.
Remember, Vacation Brain happens to all of us. The most important thing is to be practical once it wears off. Don't try to fight it or it will just get you even worse, just enjoy your vacation and the people you meet as your "Vacation Brain self" and then be honest and practical and don't expect to have your friendships and relationships go like they did on vacation. There is no way Vacation Brain can last forever.
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