LONG DEPARTED
I have stayed too long; I broke my annual 2-3 week time cap on Christmas vacation. A mistake. I think I've been here near 5 weeks: way too long! All year I long forward to coming home, the peace, laying back on the couch watching 007 reruns and the History channel. I eat ice cream and drink Coca-cola.
A 2-3 week bender of this type is tolerable if not healthy—but, any more than that is reckless indulgence and consumerism. I feel ill. Coming home is like falling into a dream. I change. I drift into old habits and forgotten routines. I see it happen and allow it. It would be uncomfortable to resist and there defeat the point of coming home.
I am so excited to get back on a pasta diet, more fruit and vege—start running regularly again. I am again encouraged to get fit and healthy.
The trip home was good. I did most of what I came to do. I had my share of detours and dead-ends, but so much good came of the trip.
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