Only The Curious

I know people who insist that they can’t use up their vacation days. (I know, right?) They tell me  they have nowhere to go. Or they don’t have anyone to go with. Occasionally they’ll take a day off just because they can. And they end up calling to see if I want to have lunch, because by noon they’re bored of being at home.

To me, this is because they are looking at it from the wrong perspective. They’ve already decided that vacation days need to look a certain way – that they have to have somewhere they want to go, and they have to go there with a specific person (or kind of person.) Rather than exploring the possibilities of what they could do on their own, or other things they could do with their vacation (like volunteer abroad, maybe) they just choose to be bored. And disappointed. And bored.

(Sidenote: Can we PLEASE come up with a system where they can transfer their wasted unused days to people like me, who will use them very, very well?)

Obviously, there are places they could go. Anywhere in the world, really. There are group trips individuals can sign up to go on. Or I bet if they called up grandma and said “hey, let’s hang out in your favorite city for a few days” she’d oblige. But they don’t see these possibilities. From their perspective, there really is no place they want to go, or the only people they’d want to bother traveling with aren’t around.

If they chose to look at it differently, they’d see other possibilities. The world would open up.

So choose how you want to see the world today. Are you going to decide it’s a bad day because it’s not what you wanted, or are you going to be excited to explore something unexpected?

Only the curious have something to find. Are you going to be curious?

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