Press the RESET button...

Vacation!  How little us Americans take.  We fear that our "2 weeks paid vacation" is really a test to see how dedicated we our to our jobs.  The heartiest of workers exclaim that they haven't missed a day of work since 1998, and they have a whopping 20 weeks saved up!  WOW!  You've literally pissed away a decade in a cubicle.  Now, I happen to be one of the fortunate ones who doesn't work in a cubicle and doesn't have a boss with an abacus counting down my vacation days for the year.  But, I do get sucked into the guilty feeling of being away from the "man" for too long.  But, oh, how a vacation revitalizes, refreshes, relieves the stresses of everyday life.  

Now you might already assume that I am on vacation, and you are correct!  I went for a glass of wine with a girlfriend just a few days before I left for this vacation in Hawaii.  She made a comment that Frank and I really just needed to "press the reset button" on life.  Her words have really resonated with me this vacation.  I began pondering the idea of every American taking 2- 2 week vacations a year.  How much more productive and positive would our country be?  Just think of how happy that lady at the post office would be if she had just returned from her two week vacation in Hawaii.  Or, how the Barrista at Starbucks would gloat about her trip to Costa Rica where she actually got to sniff the espresso beans she now serves.  What about that local friendly bartender who is friendly only because he backpacked for 4 weeks through Europe this past Spring.  Anyone can travel, everyone has the means if they so desire.  Why do we live to work, how about working to live?  No matter what you do, who you are, what tragedies or triumphs you've faced, everyone deserves to "press the reset button" every now and again!