Jim Murphy

I wrote an article called How to Be on Vacation.

And what I've experienced, most people, it's actually, it's interesting.

So two years ago, I had a friend of mine and his wife had just died.

He invited me to be, to go sailing with him in French Polynesia and for two weeks.

And my first thought was, I don't go on vacation.

But then I started thinking about, it was going to be him and his son who had just lost his mom.

And I thought, you know, maybe I could go and be something positive in their lives.

And

But this thing about vacation, the article, How to Be on Vacation, is the idea that most people go on vacation to escape their lives, like you said.

The common thing is, I'm going to go on vacation.

I don't want to think about work.

Let's not talk about work.

Let's not talk about anything back home.

We're just going to relax.

That's a very common idea, right?

Yeah.

And it's kind of like escaping your life.

And like you said, why do you have a life that you want to escape from?

So the gist of the article is rather than going to escape your life on vacation, the best vacation is one where you go to enhance your life.

Well, how do you do that?