Getaway
Everybody needs a getaway – Businessmen, students, researchers and burglars alike.
Sometimes you just have to put down whatever you are doing, shove all your shit into that nearby drawer, pick up your stuff and leave. Leave like you aren’t coming back for a while or thinking about tomorrow.
You might need a few essentials: Food, Water, Clean underwear, Shorts, Your lucky whatever and your sense of breaking free.
There are five kinds of getaways IMO:
1. Birds of a feather
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The kind where you get your closest peeps, usually friends more than family because let’s face it, there are a lot of things that are common between what your friends get to see and what your parents see but your friends will always have the pleasure of the beyond.
Your essentials: Camera, Your sense of humor, Your inner child, Your sack of puns to create the most epic jokes which could make ears bleed and which your friends secretly appreciate despite their twisting faces.
Click pics, especially when you aren’t supposed to and when you aren’t in your senses.
2. The Tribe
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This is the quieter and more sober version of your getaway with friends because in the end, your family is a group of friends with whom you’d probably hang out in a more calm, civilized, wouldn’t get the cops involved and of course, have a difference sense of pleasure out of it.
Your essentials: A book and a mental preparation for the absence of a *lot* of things.
It’s a kind of getaway I don’t like but I don’t hate it either. However, it is much needed and I find it cleansing.
3. The love birds
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Like I have to explain this one, jeez. Half of you are already thinking about it and the other half is reminiscing.
Coming up with the place is the hardest part after that you’re good to go.
You’re probably gonna want to take your camera and maybe your handy-cam if you’re into that kind of stuff.
Your essentials: A pocketful of lies for your parents, cheesy lines for him/her, quick decision making… and your pick of protection. Lots of it.
4. Wisdom
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Do something you normally wouldn’t do.
Read something you normally wouldn’t read.
Fake love to someone you normally wouldn’t fake love to.
You witness two major things here:
– You learn a lot of new things.
– You make a lot of mistakes which lead you back to the first point above.
Your essentials: An interest in the unknown and a hunger to learn… and more protection.
5. Lone Wanderer
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This is a functional getaway and the most effective one too. It could be a little complicated and the course of this could be a little hard to accept at first.
More than a getaway, it’s a learning experience. You pick up so many things you never saw before, never experienced before, never heard of before or something that just never caught your green eye but was always before you.
I wouldn’t recommend this to the faint. You need to accept it with a particular mindset which I cannot explain though, if you are the type for it, you would have already figured out exactly what I’m talking about even before this paragraph is done.
Your essentials: Amnesia of the past, a valve for the present and a no entry pass for the thoughts of the future. Plenty of fuel and no direction.
Now get out.
Weekends
One thing’s for sure, if weekends didn’t exist, the world would be a very very different place. Working class people would be kissing me in agreement right now. College kids, please gtfo, you gaiz lead a life and have little say in this.
I’ve just had a very hectic week. Had presentations to give, solutions to devise, schemes to plot and women to check out and boy am I glad I earned this three day weekend. It’s a chunk of meat in the middle of a lifelong fast.
You slog your ass off throughout the week and you have something to look forward to i.e. Saturdays and Sundays. For some, only Sundays but that’s good cause they savor the weekend better than those whore I mean who’re blessed with two day weekends.
Another thing about weekends is, at least for most people, we always tend to make sure we have something to talk about over the course of the week with our coworkers and friends which is why weekends usually end up being really crazy.
Even if it’s something as small as setting a high score on your video game or scoring a really hot chick or guy or both( if that’s the way you swing), we tend to make sure that’s the highlight of the week and it kinda motivates us to move on with life over the next week i.e. until something crazy happens in the weekend that is to follow.
However, the worst part about weekends is that it has the word ‘end’ in it. All good things come to an end. Happiness is short-bound but there is a strange satisfaction in beginning each week groaning and moping about how shitty Mondays are and how life seems never ending when you like at the long stretch of days till you hit Friday. It has balance. Appreciate it.
I’m sitting here in front of my laptop in the middle of a Saturday afternoon because I enjoy this. It takes my mind off the shit that I faced over the last one week. It also takes my mind off caring about the week that is coming up. I’m amidst the tempting evils of procrastination, sloth and pleasure and couldn’t give two shits about life because I know this is well deserved. I’m just gonna do my thing. This is exactly how your weekends should be too.
Cool guy signing out.
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