A lot of things happen during the holiday and we have different purposes for always looking forward to it. Whenever the word holiday pops up, what comes to my mind are family, friends and lots of rest time. We live in a very busy world where we barely have enough time to do other things after going out there in search of our daily bread, the hustle out there is real and time-consuming for some humans. I have listened to different motivational speakers about time management and what many of them fail to see is that life is not the same for everyone.
We are exposed to more opportunities than one another and it takes some people to give more than usual just to survive. I met a man some years ago at one of the Guinness warehouses back then while job hunting and he told me clearly that he does two jobs. He works in the factory during the day and works as a security at night, how do you teach time management to such a person?
Let me not digress too much from the topic and I hope you will agree with me that the man holiday priorities would be different from someone who spends less time working and earns a huge salary.
After all the stress of switching between jobs, the few hours left for many people in a day is what we spend on our mental and physical health so we practically don't have much time until the holiday pops up.
As I mentioned earlier, what the holiday means to every human is different and one thing I have done so far during this holiday is spending quality time with my family. I said in one of my posts that we have a lot of catching to do as a family and that's what we have done exactly.
We are a small family of five and our holiday goals are the same for now. My mom for instance is an evangelist who doesn't take her duties lightly, she is always on the move with her church's evangelical team preaching the gospel. Due to moving around cities and states, we don't spend much time together until the holiday comes. She definitely comes home to rest and we don't disturb her rest time but during the holiday, she gets to rest and also spend quality time with her children. I don't get tired of listening to her experience out there and she never gets tired of sharing them.
Two of my siblings are students and it's all about studies for them. They leave home very early in the morning and return in the evening to do assignments or research, we spend time together but not as much as during the holiday when they don't have to worry about sleeping early just to wake up early the next day, no assignments and bonding is what we do.
My immediate brother always said he is at the stage of acquiring knowledge and if busy was a person, the name would have been perfect for him. He is learning multiple things at a time and videography is one of them, that job particularly makes him spend a lot of time away. Despite his busy schedule, he doesn't joke about holidays because he knows that it is the time we have to be together.
We all communicate but it's not like spending time with each other physically. So far this holiday, we have been catching up with one another and it has been a lot of fun for us even though we spend more time indoor than outdoor.
Cooking together, seeing movies, and creating our goal as a family for the coming year are among the things we have done and there are still more activities on our list before the year runs out completely. All of these might not mean much to people who have an opposite purpose for the holiday. It could be travelling for some, it could be partying and what matters most is doing what we think is best and enjoyable for us this holiday.
