HOLIDAYS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME

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There is not much need of proving to most schoolboys that holidays are necessary. They are quite convinced that they are and most desirable too. They welcome a holiday from school with hilarious joy, and plague the headmaster on the least excuse to let them off their lessons. It would be more in place to try to convince them of the necessity of work and study. Yet it may be desirable to show that regular intervals of rest, recreation, or a change of occupation are really necessary. As the old rhymes says, “all work and no play, makes jack a dull boy”. Holidays at proper intervals are especially necessary for young people, and for those engaged in hard mental work; for continuous work, without a break, will injure the health and may cause a nervous breakdown. A short holiday, rightly used, will send us back to our work wit renowned zest and Vigour.

It all depends on how rightly the holidays are used. For holidays may be abused. If the holiday is spent in stupid idleness or in an exhausting round of exciting amusements or shut up in close stuffy rooms drinking and playing or in any other unhealthy way, the boy or man will come back to his work tired, listless and uninterested. The holiday, instead of doing good, has done harm, much more harm than steady work could ever do.

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How can a holiday, then, be best used, so that at the end of it we shall come back to our work with energies renewed and interest keener than ever? If we were students or have been shut up in stuffy offices, we should get away into the pure air of the country and live a healthy, open- air life enjoying games or sports. We should avoid unhealthy amusement, keep early hours and get plenty of refreshing sleep. And we should not be completely idle. Change of occupation is a rest. And if we have a little regular work to do, work that we take the interest in, it will make our holiday not only healthier but more enjoyable.