Business As Usual, Not !

So here it comes again, the Lebaran or Idul Fitri holiday season in Indonesia. I'm thinking things might get really boring over the holidays, it's like I should've been better off working during the holidays. The idea of going on a trip during the holidays is unbearable, just for the very fact that places get so overly crammed (at least here in Indonesia), you can't possibly go anywhere without hearing children's cries, loud music, and annoying laughter. It's ridiculously difficult trying to get plane tickets and lodgings and worse if you're the last minute type. I always try to avoid those times. Even so, if the holidays were meant to be fun, I still can't see the real reasons for it. Shouldn't just people take leave and go on vacations? It makes it so much easier for people wishing to stay on working during dramatic periods. I might come up with something different for a change, like trying to work on partnerships or business deals overseas. That way, when the holidays comes, I could go take a plane and fly away, and come back in a few days without missing a single thing. That sounds great ! Just how busy is "busy", well, as promiscuous as it seems, the implication of "being busy" differs distinctly across the globe. One might say working from 9 to 5 gets them real busy, while some work over till the wee hours of first light yet they consider themselves far from being busy. Who's to say what? What's the relative point of "being busy"?

Imagine the hours wasted during the holidays with which otherwise could be used in productive ways. Eight hours a day, multiply that by a week, you have 56 wasted hours, times the population of this country, 250 million, that's 14 billion hours flying away. Such a pity, countless things could've been accomplished during that period. It makes me feel obnoxious & guilty at the same time. I can't stop but think, people are wasting so much precious time. Why would you or I for that matter, waste precious time when, really, you can't turn back the clock, ever! I'm not trying to arouse sarcasm all over my blog, but let's face it, we've had times where we'd rather be spending time at the office, doing some sort of work and getting the money for it too, of course! (or else, why would you?) So then the inevitable question slips in; how do you balance life and work? I take days off during my regular work days, go on little trips here and there. That should do it for me, life's balanced, while work is something more of an array of deranged amalgamation of money-making, self-neglecting, mind-provoking, (sweat-generating, sometimes) cycle of activities that is both a gift and a curse to mankind. A curse because people neglect their families, engaged on having affairs in the office, a little extreme isn't it, but it's true. Don't get me wrong, I'm far from being fond of stereotyping people but for the most part, work is good, keeps people busy, puts money on the table.

Am I already being a workaholic? I don't think so.. I don't even remember why the word "workaholic" was ever invented. It's almost like the word is universally being used to console those who hate work, and to taunt the hardworking society of this world. It just makes it sound so incredibly senseless when you're in your prime trying to do everything, everywhere, every time, out of every opportunity. Enough said, I'm preparing to kill time by piling up books to read up during the holidays. It's gonna be a long, dull and counter-productive holiday season, but then again, the world spins.