ACFIL Editorial: ENJOYING SUMMER IN ITALY

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Source: ACFIL’s Ang Tambuli July 2012 Newsletter

What is this life if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare? (William Henry Davies)

After a long period of cold weather everyone wishes for springtime… giving the signal that summer will be coming soon. Indeed summer is here! Signaling out the dawn of a break from a busy world. We can‘t deny the fact that we ourselves feel victim of that dire need to rush daily. Children to school, parents to daily home chores or working parents to their respective offices, businessmen to keeping appointments with their clients, leaders of the country in handling their people, caregivers to assisting the person entrusted to them, baby-sitters to helping babies make their first steps and so on and so forth. The fact is that we all make ourselves busy and at a certain point we all want a break!!! And now is the time… to find respite from the daily hectic schedule, an escape too from excessive heat of a crowded city and enjoy the cool breeze that gently caress us while watching the sun rising augustly and the elegant setting of the sun late in the afternoon.

The choice is for us to take…spend precious moments with our love ones in beaches, in the green-covered mountains that gives sensation of a clean and fresh air, or just deciding to stay in the countryside or visit other cities of attraction.

Summer vacation does not only imply an escape from where we are and moving to another place but also a reunion and communion with members of our families and spend worthwhile activities with them. Other realities about summer is also existing to the lives of OFWs. Some choose to remain at work in summer to earn twice a salary, others remain at work because they were obliged to do so by their employers and some are given a chance to take their vacation but goes to take a summer job in order to earn extra income to meet their financial needs or cover-up financial loses or simply earn an income to save more.

Whatever one decides to do this summer and wherever one chooses to spend it my only wish is that one enjoys it, feels great about it and one comes back with renewed strength and spirit and ready to face the coming back of autumn and another long season of winter.

WISHING EVERYONE A GREAT SUMMER VACATION!!!

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