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ShareDiwali, the Festival of Lights, has come and gone, and so have the holidays for most service-class residents of Ahmedabad, leaving many of them infected by the 'holiday hangover' virus. This deadly, debilitating condition is described as 'the terrible feeling you get the day you have to go back to work after more than two days off due to holidays', which is exactly what every individual who resumed work after the festive season felt.
"I had holidays from Saturday to Monday, when I had a blast with my friends. However, only when this came to an end and I had to appear for work on Tuesday morning did I realise the massive holiday hangover I was suffering from," said Vishal Patel, a banker, who took an extra day off from work on Tuesday and resumed work on Wednesday.
"But my entire day at office was spent in an odd mood. In fact, none of my colleagues seemed to be in a mood to work at all," Patel said. The Diwali holidays provide professionals and service-class residents of Ahmedabad ample opportunity to cut loose and forget the recession blues -- resulting in them finding it hard to return to work at the end of their mini-vacation. Seema Amin, who works in a private firm, also seems to be suffering from a holiday hangover.
"Diwali was followed by the Gujarat New Year and Bhai Bij, which meant feasts and get-togethers. I had so much fun, gorging on laddus and gulab jamuns, while not bothering about waking up or sleeping at proper times," she said. "But the holidays left me in such a bad mood that I am not sure when I will be rid of the hangover."
Blogs and social networking sites on web, including Orkut and Facebook, are displaying innumerable messages denoting holiday hangovers. "The thrill of sitting at home, eating mithais, meeting and greeting people around you, receiving innumerable compliments (about the new kurta pyjama or the lehenga that you wore, or rangoli, or diyas, and even your fully decorated house). All this minus the office! Who wants to sit and stare at the computer screen with fingers on the keyboard and sleep in the eyes," wrote Chandni Jain on her blog.
