I have a bit less than a week to go until my summer holiday starts, and I already feel very much in holiday mode. In sync with soon turning off the alarm for a couple of weeks, trying to not feel like I need to do too much during the days, tricky stuff like that.
I think I can do fine at it this year. Some years it feels hard to get into the right mindset, but this time I think I have it.
Which, yes, probably means I will completely fall out of it in some strange way. I will deal with that when it happens.
For now, I am quite happy tapping away at my keyboard on a Thursday night, having had an evening meal in the setting sun with some alcohol to go along with it.
Completely as if tomorrow was not a work day, and also somehow completely fine with tomorrow being one.
Is this not the kind of feeling I tend to have toward the end of a holiday? "Oh, I should try to hold on to this relaxed state of mind when work starts again."
Surely it can not be a bad thing to start that feeling early?