In the dog days of summer, many think writers take the days off. We just look at summer differently. We need to tell the our stories of summer.It just means we can write about things that are fleeting thoughts and later rewrite to make some sense of it all.
So start the day with writing and then celebrate your accomplishment by getting outside. Here is what I have been thinking about: I think we all look for that perfect vacation place since it epitomizes a wonderful place to be and a wonderful peace of mind. As the baby boomers age they are much more interested in their time away from their “regular life.” The increase in second homes and even third homes gives us much to think about on what our “regular” life really looks like. Part of this can be looked at as success but when the majority of people have one is that really a marker for success but rather what the majority considers important.
Our immigrant ancestors just had enough to put food on the table. They never really vacationed. They might have traveled to a relative for a wedding or other special family event. Some even went over the river and through the woods for holiday celebrations. Most did not, since many homes had any where from two to three generations living under one roof. In fact, in Europe it is easy to trace families since they never really moved that far away from each other. Those who had property were the ones who had it handed down from generation. Some families lived in the same house for hundreds of year. We live in a country where it seems odd to live a house over twenty years. We live in a country where a generation ago you had to be wealthy to have a second home and now it has become common place for people to have a second home whether purchased as a retirement home or a lake place that means a get away from your “regular life.”
In the quest of the perfect vacation and vacation home I find it strange that the baby boomers are searching for all over the world to find that perfect place that no one has been before. We want to tell the world of that perfect place whether is it that zoom vacation where we participate in extreme sports or is it the buzz that we get from looking out over a tranquil vista. How far we have come as society from several generations of a family in one home to finding that perfect place. One way to look at summer and our lives.
So you may ask why write about your ideal vacation. I look at it as away for your loved ones to really see those things that are important to you and that you don’t regularly share with others. Of course you can write about the great vacations of your youth, the first time you went to Disney Land and when you returned with you own kids to Disney World. I think all of us can write easily when are our best which sometimes is when we are doing something totally different than we normally do. It allows the others to really see us to see us as we are or hope to be.
Triggers:
1. Have I been on that perfect vacation? Where did you go? What made it perfect?
2. If you are planning on taking a vacation what could you do to make it a perfect vacation?
3. Do the people you vacation with make the experience perfect or is the place you go?
4. Do you have a retirement home? Is it a seasonal location? How did you choose that area?
5. When you get away from your regular life what is the other life like?
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