Do You Actually Need a Summer Vacation or Is It Just the Algorithm Talking?

It’s July. Your feed is 80% sea views, 20% beach fits, and maybe a crying selfie captioned “healing era.” Suddenly, you’re sweating in your bedroom, Googling “cheapest flight to Mykonos” and wondering if your life is even real without a seaside sunset story.

Let’s pause. Do you actually want a summer vacation—or is this just seasonal FOMO wrapped in a coconut-scented illusion?

Don’t get us wrong: sun, sea, and silence hit different. There’s something magical about swimming until your skin wrinkles and eating overpriced ice cream in a towel. Science even says that being near water lowers stress and boosts your mood. But somewhere along the way, rest turned into content and vacations became performances. Now, if you’re not sipping an iced drink with a cryptic caption like “mentally here” (but you are there), it feels like you’re doing summer wrong. Here’s the reality: you don’t need to book a flight to prove you’re living your best life. Want peace? You can find it in your city, your room, your local park. Basically, no passport needed.

Real rest isn’t a destination. It’s logging off. It’s saying “no” without guilt. It’s choosing slow over scroll. For sure the beach is great. The seaside memories are the better ones. But to be rest, to healed. The way is not to jump in the sea and holding a cocktail in a happy hours. Or trying to pose for social media every step you take during the “vacation” is not the way of healing. Yes the beach is great. But so sleeping as well or having your own personal time and think about the further steps may heal you more than any others. Deleting Instagram/TikTok for a week, or reading a book you actually like (not just the one everyone says you should read).

So this summer, travel if you want. Don’t if you don’t. Do not go to the palaces that you have no idea just because you saw it on Instagram. Romanticize your life, enjoy every moment. Focus on your inner-self not the ones you see on socials. The vibe is intentional joy, not algorithm-approved aesthetics.