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A hen that lays golden eggs is important in that it lays ‘golden eggs’! However, if one were to get rich overnight he might consider slaughtering the hen for all the gold. Unfortunately such an idea yields no eggs but dead flesh to be eaten by scavengers. It is for this reason and for no other that proper care of the hen be taken. Proper feed, proper resting place and such as are necessary to ensure continuity of ‘eggs’

The idea of proper care is not only suitable to the hen but also to men who while arduously engaged in fatiguing work ignore it to take timeout.

It is a common experience that a puzzling thought finds answers when we are not literally working on it. Plot for a great story is discovered to us during our ‘idle hours’. It underpins importance of rest and enjoyment for efficient working. A sage has wisely said, “ the time that we enjoy wasting, is not wasted.” This is keeping in view the importance of enjoyment and leisurely hours in our life.

If men were robots they might at least not need ‘rest’. They would continue to work on a novel for days together, learn lessons of mathematics without intervening subconscious processing of thoughts. The efficiency and effectiveness would have been uninterrupted.

But men need rest, enjoyment, and change of routine. Therefore we cannot easily ignore importance of holiday, which has all the three ingredients. It alleviates anxiety of workload , takes away from hectic environment of office. Holiday is a ‘proper feed’ of mind, gives it ‘proper resting place’, and ‘timeout’. A day off from school, or office is indeed a boon from heavens. Protestation of political parties which result in holiday is bad for government but a good for students and workers who are tired of waking up early in morning, observing ‘useless’ dress code in schools, attending monotonous discourses of teachers for hours, which make a person of strongest nerve to yawn.

Other holidays include Independence Day, Defense day, Eid Festivals, winter vacations and Summer Holidays. For a student these are memorable days. Its importance can be gauged from the sighing expression of office workers who tag student for ‘kingly life’

From a psychological point of view, it is discovered that ‘stimulus variation’ is one of the most important needs of human beings. In one experiment both hands of man were cuffed, his feet were shackled and he was placed in a dark pit full of water with provision of oxygen. this setting was such that no change in stimulus could take place. It was found that the person did not find anything strange for few minutes but after sometime he had hallucinating voices and visions. When experiment was carried on it produced suicidal thoughts. Stimulus variation is one of our psychological needs, very much like sexual need, or sleep. Its importance in life can be realised from the fact that it even applies to our primary needs for a person who is provided with delicious food of only one variety gets bored of it in no time.

Holiday on the one hand provides us with changing atmosphere from monotonous work, and on the other hand it improves our output against monotonous nature of work. A holiday is a means that provides us with stimulus variation. People engage in different tasks, look to other corners of world, meet other people, make new friendships, all serving the purpose of variation.

From a sociological point of view, in ‘ Sociology’ by Paul B. Horton indicates that cause of emergence of new civilizations, cause of inventions, discoveries could be that people got ‘bored’ from previous things. This idea may at first seem ludicrous, yet no one can deny the need for a change. A change from one norm to another with a slow process can be rightly ascribed to our desire for change. constant nature of change is an impetus for which we appreciate arrival of a holiday.

Concept of change of routine work has gained almost universal concept, for almost all institutions of world make their employees to work from Monday to Saturday ,providing Sunday as a holiday.When a new week starts on Monday people join their institutes with newfound vigor and energy. A week without Sunday seems hellish, repulsive and burdensome.

A holiday is a time for celebration. It can be celebrated in a variety of ways. Students go out for a short trip to various historical places to meet different people, enjoy their cuisine, listen to their folk songs, and legendary tales. Or they may visit new institutes, engage in seminars, and discussions and enrich their experiences.
Besides that people enjoy playing games, joining health clubs, reading stories, learning new languages and skills going out for dinner with friends and families, watching movies and documentaries. some people get plenty of sleep thinking of rest instead of any work at all. All of these activities make amends for monotony of work

On a question whether it is good to make vocation of vacation, it depends upon the type of vocation and underlying idea of enjoyment. If one enjoys his vocation for a change then all is well, if vocation is another monotonous work in disguise it had better be put off for proper time. one can spend his vacation learning new skills but motivation should be self directed rather than parent-driven for then it would seem more like compulsion, and purpose of vacation would be wasted, which is indeed enjoyment.

Some erudite opine that people should not be given holidays lest they disturb continuity of work. Such people hold that men is born to work, and when he asks for resting hours he is finding a way to procrastinate. These people are perhaps ignorant about the importance of rest and happiness in life. Perhaps they consider men as mere machines.

A short anecdote would elaborate on this aspect of thinking: a man was busy cutting a tree with his saw. He was sweating. And spent a long time on cutting tree because his saw was not sharp. A passerby asked him to sharpen his saw at which the woodcutter said, “ Don’t u see old man , I m busy cutting this tree. I do not have time.” The old man replied smilingly, “ If u take few minutes to sharpen your saw, u would be able to cut in less time without more energy.”

It can be concluded that holiday is important for us for the reason of change from monotonous routine, provisioning of enjoyment and tool of ensuring efficiency.


Regards,
Versatile