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Vacation vs recreation

A vacation is time away from work; recreation is restoration of your actual capacity to engage with life. You can return from weeks abroad more depleted than when you left if you've simply transported your anxieties to a beach, while an hour of genuine play might reset your nervous system entirely. The distinction matters because one is a calendar event and the other is a physiological state.

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