The pain of returning to the
reality of your real life after experiencing a vacation you wish was your real life.
Sufferers of Awesome Vacation Hangover will often feel anger or resentment within the first week post vacation and question the decisions they have made leading them to where they are and the things they do on a daily basis.
They
may find themselves daydreaming of a different life, lingering
nuggets of joy from memories of where they were or what they were doing on vacation.
Sufferers might even try to invent imaginary ways to make the vacation life they were living a
reality. Only to find themselves more miserable than they were before they even left on vacation to begin with.
Awesome Vacation hangover is when a mother and
father of 3 small children go on vacation without the kids. They visit Tokyo! They sleep in, eat amazingly fresh
sushi, attend a Japanese Punk Rock concert, take naps in the middle of the day, and eat their fabulous meals at odd times.
The
parents return to their regular lives. The
father is working 80 hours a week at a meaningless job he hates. The mother is mopping pee off the bathroom floor, breaking up sibling rivalry, and cleaning up a sloppy diaper while slathering rash cream on her baby's sore
bottom. The baby screams in pain, someone else throws a toy at Wife's head, and another child is crying because the computer isn't playing the RIGHT kind of train movie.
Both parents really enjoyed their time in Tokyo and struggled returning cheerfully to their real life.
