Importance of Holiday

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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
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