COMBINING WORK WITH VACATION, IRONIC?

We as human beings love to set a guideline and live by it. We tend to dwell into the should be so much that we ignore the endless possibilities that can be explored if we step out of the tiny box that we have created for ourselves. The pandemic and life altering events that followed it have made us realize that life is so much more than just earning money. Who would’ve thought that work-leisure would be a thing? Attending office meetings in your pajamas with a face mask on would have sound comical before 2020. But the pandemic has given us the opportunity to embrace life in its rawest form and yell “love you zindagi!!!”

Work from home, while being comfortable, also merges our personal and professional lives leaving no room for an escape. This constant rush of a lifestyle has caused many people to slip into mental distress and even extreme conditions like depression and anxiety. To remedy this, many youngsters and professionals are opting for a work vacation or a workation.  As funny as it sounds, it has been a great change of lifestyle for some. Work from home makes daily life seem mundane and a change of scenario, in a nice resort with good food, can make it easier to cope up with the new normal.

Now you can see people heading to their favorite destinations with their laptops handy, working in the ambiance they desire and extracting the best out of this remote working and learning concept. Workation allows people to work remotely and to also indulge in elements of leisure. Traveling is what our hearts crave right now. To get out of the four walls of our bedrooms, and be lost somewhere on those idyllic beaches or the majestic mountains, the feeling of sitting on an airplane or bus and to reach our destination. The feeling of sitting somewhere in the mountains or on a serene beach, gulping chilled beer or sipping hot coffee would tempt our soles beyond measures, won’t it? Being a part of such an atmosphere calm us, improves our mental health, and helps us reach better versions of ourselves. Mental health is one such discrete domain that has always been kept at an unequal footing from physical health but this pandemic has made us understand the prominence of mental health so it is our duty now to do what’s best for our mental health and coupling Work with vacation is one such way of doing it.