It's just as well that the little voice in your head had just enough volume left in it to stop you before you came on too strongly with that new guy in sales. You know he was right. Well, now you are entering the holiday season and you're probably thinking your chances of romance are on the up. Time off to spend away from your usual haunts, with new, anonymous people in more glamorous surroundings. Holiday romances are curious things.
Some people go through their entire lives without ever having one.
Others go miles out of their way every summer to have them because they are addicted to the transience, the inconsequential nature of mad flings that neither they nor their part-time partners have any plans to take further. Others blunder into holiday romances and end up getting thoroughly messed up because of them. They mistake the blinding light and heat of a phosphorescent fling for love and devotion and actually consider changing their entire lives for the new man or woman temporarily in their lives. It matters little that keeping this new flame alive might involve you emigrating to Fiji or putting in for a transfer from your office in, say, Sydney, to the Gold Coast branch. Traditional thought has it that men and women have approached holiday romances from different angles.