My family has been taking family vacations twice a year for as long as I can remember. We've gone to all sorts of fun places like Antarctica, Egypt, Brazil, Thailand, and 36 other countries, taken road trips across the country, and gotten in all sorts of stressful (but fun) adventures. India really was kind of one of the last place I really really really wanted to visit. Although I'm super bummed that I won't be able to go on vacation with them, I think I'm more bummed about the fact that the time has finally, finally come when my family is no longer to go on vacation, all together, the 5 (or 7) ish of us... We've been really blessed to have been able to even go on so many vacations over the past years -- having school breaks, my parents being able to step out of work for many weeks at a time, having the financial security.... but now that we kids are growing older and have other responsibilities (aka real jobs) to attend to, we don't have the luxury of taking weeks off at a time twice a year anymore.
Last winter, after our trip to Israel, Jordan, and Egypt, I couldn't help crying when saying goodbye to my parents and siblings at the airport because I knew deep down that that vacation would probably be the last extended one that all 5 of us would take together. Vacations are something that distinctly sets of my family apart and triggers thoughts of childhood, so having to finally come to terms with not being able to take family vacations anymore is uh, pretty tough, to say the least.
:'(
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