Vacating...

Vacation.  One vacates? 

Vacates what, though?  What if one's life now is such a change from what one's life was that going back to vacation with people who are from that "was" just inadvertently take you away from who you are now and return you back to where you've worked so hard to move away from?

Is there a successful vacation when you are assured of being thought of, interacted with and only seen as who you've always been known to be?

Or, does a successful vacation require going somewhere with only one's new self?