The journey

You know that experience when there is a lot of conversation around you, but you don't have the foggiest idea what it is that people are saying? The transfer in Brazil was a little like that. In these instances, I like doing two things.

One is to imagine the conversations that are going on, often in the most ludicrous way possible.

The other is to tune into the accents, to see if there is a conversation to overhear.

I was not disappointed on the latter strategy. One conversation and the reason for this person's being in Chile is worth retelling.

He quit his job on wednesday, turned up at the airport on thursday and boarded the first plane with available seats. He is then going to travel using the well known travelling guide - the flip of a coin.

His plan - every time he needs to make a choice about the direction he should take, he will flip a coin.

No credit cards.
No plan.

Just a the freedom to choose the direction he is to take with the flip of a coin.

I wonder what we would leave to the flip of a coin.

It made me ponder the freedom and liberty we have, and the ways in which we can sometimes constrain our freedoms by our own expectations and conventions.
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