How are you feeling right now?
This past week, life decided to play a little game of “let’s-see-how-she-handles-this.” First, an eagerly anticipated international trip, planned down to the last detail, was derailed at the eleventh hour. There I was, suitcase packed, passport in hand, but the universe had other plans. A canceled trip left me feeling like a deflated balloon—lost and a bit adrift.
But I wasn’t about to let that stop me. Plan B: a spontaneous local getaway. Surely, a short jaunt couldn’t go wrong, right? Wrong. A day into the trip, the non-flow of life struck again, and suddenly, I was headed back home, trip cut short, plans in tatters.
Now, I could have thrown a fit. I could have lamented the lost adventures, the missed opportunities. But instead, I’m choosing to go with the non-flow. Yes, sometimes life doesn’t just throw you a curveball; it tosses the whole playbook out the window. But maybe that’s the point—sometimes, we’re not meant to be where we planned.
So, what’s next? A new slate of trips for the rest of the year. The world’s still out there, and so am I. I’ll adjust my sails, chart new courses, and maybe even embrace the unpredictability. After all, it’s the twists and turns, the detours and delays, that make the journey worthwhile. Here’s to going with the flow—or rather, the non-flow—and finding new adventures wherever they may lead.
Categories: Culture, identity, mental health, Psychology, society, Travel
psychologistmimi 
Ah Yes Dear Miriam Looking Forward
To Seeing More of the Colors oF A Rainbow
Yet Getting Left Behind
As Yes Stuff Happens in Life
Reminds me of How Excited
i Was Visiting Disney World
in Youth Years Where They
Had a Futuristic High Definition
Screen to See Future TV Wow
Hehe it Doesn’t take too Much to get
me excited and that was enough then
Yet in 2006 When We Bought Our First
Plasma HDTV Oh Dear Lord the Colors Started
Hurting my Eyes and All i Could Watch on that
Big Screen is Black And White What A Bummer that was
With the Advent of TV Way Before That i Lost Much Pleasure
With Reading Black and White Book Print As TV Was another
World that Required
No Real Work for me to Do…
Yes i was Really Hooked for
So Many Decades and Years
HDTV New For the World i Hung on to then…
Then the pain got Worse Eventually That Type
Two Trigeminal Neuralgia Worst Pain Known to Humankind
Neither Tolerating Light or Sound as All went to Pain and Numb
No More HDTV for me Not Even Black And White Not Even Any Radio
Dear Lord it Was Like Losing Modernity and going back to the Early 1900’s
Yet What Replaced the Promise of Additional Rainbow Colors was a first real
Ability to Concentrate and write a weakest Part of my Intelligence Before Particularly
Anything Associated With Creativity
As Sure to Do Lists and Quick Notes
i Did Do Yet really didn’t go back to
Them Much as that Kind of Writing
Enough to Focus and Remember
Later When Necessary in School or Work
Writing Has Connected me with Innumerable
Human Souls All Around the Globe So Much Better
For the Colors Within that any HDTV i Will iMaGiNE Now
True no need
for 4K or 8K
16K or a Terrabyte
of TV Colors Next
As Now i Create my Own
Unlimited for what ever word comes Next…
When One Door Closes 16 or so MiLLioN Online Words Follow Hehe..:)
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Eek! With an upcoming trip myself, this one hits too close to home. 😅 Well, hopefully everything will go as planned, but if not – thank goodness for trip insurance, right? I do hope you manage to go on your trip after all, even if it’s been delayed.
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