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LAST WORD

The Vacationing ECP

When you're in the retail trenches of the optical industry, a week can seem like a month, a month like a year, (and a year – well fuggedaboutit!). The stress of just keeping up with all the changes - from new lens designs, to the current fashions in color and frame styles, and dealing with customers who know the cost of everything (and the value of nothing) can put you right over the edge.

We need vacations!!! Got to relax!

Relaxation can take many forms, Some people like golf ("A good walk spoiled" said one philosopher), others trek to a casino to try their luck, still others swear by resorts like Disney et al, or cruise ships in their great variety. Some seek near violent activity like rock climbing, or riding mountain bikes down cliffs, and of course, base-jumping for the adrenaline junkies among us.

The more passive forms of relaxation including Yoga, Ti Chi, and other eastern arts are also terrific - but all require some experience and a good instructor.

Still, others of us like to do nothing, and have raised that skill to a great art. Let me tell you, (speaking as an expert) if you try to "do nothing" at home you're in trouble. It is axiomatic that if you stay in residence, the appliances will rebel. The lawn will need your attention, the computer will crash, the kids will call you for emergency babysitting duties, your TV will earn its title of "the great wasteland" - 500 channels and nothing on as your face becomes pastier and your stomach plumper by the day.

You've got to get away! Where is up to you. Preferably a spot where solitude is encouraged and abetted, cruise ships are too regimented, and probably not a resort where you feel guilty if you don't avail yourself of the creature comforts and recreational activities offered – because "You're paying for them!" So, where then?

Leave your Blackberry at home, along with your laptop; you'll be amazed at how the world continues without your direct input.

A wonderful (and isolated) cabin in the woods, a hut in the solitude of the mountains, a little shack by the roar of the ocean's surf, all take on a luster undimmed by today's more advanced commercial civilization. Think Superman's Fortress of Solitude! Add a stack of good books, easy to prepare food, (not a Ruby Tuesday or Chili's in sight) binoculars and a good birder's guide, or if you are of an artistic bent – your paints, charcoal, pastels, or your notes for the great novel you'd like to write are all the companions you need. (Plus your significant other to share the wonderful solitude with!)

So there you are, my guide to total relaxation. Oh yeah, bring a radio to keep up with the slumping Red Sox. (Also, almost forgot – a cell phone so we can talk to the kids, the little one has strep!) Nothing else however. Oh except, maybe a golf club or two so the swing doesn't get rusty, but that's it! Gee, if the cabin has electricity – a microwave might also be a good idea – you don't want to cook all your meals over an open fire, do you?

Jim Magay
jmagay@ziplink.net

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