I flew to visit my mother in Las Vegas a little over a week ago, and I took a vacation — or, at least, I attempted to take a vacation. After about ten minutes of supposedly lounging by the pool on the first day, I typed “how to relax?” into Google. Then, I revised the search: “how to relax on vacation no drugs.” One of the suggestions that popped up was “soak in water,” but after I made the ten-foot trek to the pool and stood waist-deep in the shallow end, I was still preoccupied with the concern that I was doing relaxing wrong. Was I just really supposed to just . . . be in water and do nothing? I started picking leaves out of the pool.
Is it truly the case that there are human beings who are actually capable of taking a real vacation?
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