Sometimes bad things happen.
Paintings are ruined. People behave selfishly. Luggage is lost.
These are the times when it’s most valuable to get the kind of message I got yesterday. I’m heading to London for 3 months (in a week!) and intend to do a lot of side trips while I’m there. My coworker wrote:
If anyone can find themselves on a midnight train in Morocco speeding toward an obscure music festival in the desert, it’d be you. If anyone could find themselves dipping toes in the Black Sea from a fisherman’s boat, it’d be you. If ANYONE could find themselves in the capital of a country in the middle of a velvet revolution, it’d be you. Go forth and ADVENTURE!
Thanks, Whitney, for the reminder. I’m putting those three things on my list for the coming months!
AND, just now, as I was about to post this, my phone rang–the airline found my luggage. 