Mélange Travel & Lifestyle Magazine October 2019 | Page 276

Sint Maarten Aamazing www.visitstmaarten.com Riselle, The Traveling Island Girl A s you sit in your gray cubicle, fluorescent light above hurting your eyes, and the out-of- date office chair giving you the perfect reason to take a day off work tomorrow - after all, your sore back deserves a day away from the painful monotony of the office - you Photo Credit: St. Lucia Tourism look down at your phone and continue scrolling through rather frantically, on Instagram. As your fingers rapidly move from picture to picture, you’re so green with envy you think it actually may be seeping through your pores, visible to all. How are all the people you follow able to go on these beautiful vacations, you ask yourself. Some of them are even your coworkers. How is this even possible? Some of us do get to a point in our lives where we feel overworked, stressed, and suddenly realize that we haven’t done the things we’ve set out to do, years ago.