vacations

If you have a medical student in your life, you probably know that they never have long vacations max they get is a month and a half or 2 months, and if they have a vacation they most probably have a test to get ready for, paperwork to finish, assignment to complete.
Never long enough vacation for them to get out of the student or the doctor mood, vacations that they are long enough to relax but not long enough to feel free and live like normal people.
After an experience that forced me to take 3 months of vacation, I understand that this is exactly the right thing, long vacation is not allowed for a reason, it isn’t that they want to force students to get robotic or for them to lose the compassion and enjoyment of normal life. On the contrary, they want us to have fun not to forget our human side, but not to forget our duty toward the job, the oath and the human we deal with.
Vacations are important but hard because having fun can make the human forget how to commit to his duty and go back when he must go back.
Not only this is the reason why vacations are hard they make you put high expectations about your reality that you forget how it is if you spend a long time away of, the longer the vacations the higher your expectations get and the harder your hit get when you land on the rock of reality.
This vacation that will end soon in latterly in less than 48 hours from now, and lasted 3 months and a half, had taught me the value of short vacations.