bene_legionary
Searching for the daguerrotype of God
As always life seems to be a bit topsy turvy, and sometimes it feels like the best thing is to just drop the expectations and do something on the spot, forgetting the judgment of people around you (and most importantly, your own) and to do what you want to do in the moment. And some of those moments can be incredibly rewarding. So, what have you done that has been spontaneous? What more could you do? Do you think you should live life more spontaneously?
I'll start with my own example. I was in Sri Lanka the past few weeks and to get there I had an eight hour layover in Melbourne. The city I've been trying to go to study in for years at this point. Well the last time I had been there was about ten years ago and when I was going up the escalator to the international terminal I had the thought of popping out to check on some of my friends who had moved there after high school. That ended up with me buying a Myki card and finding my way to RMIT, where one of my close friends went to study interior design, and also the University of Melbourne where I met someone I knew from an online community who began studying there this year. We had a good time talking about the differences between Melbourne and New Zealand and our involvement in that community; as for my friend at RMIT he wasn't on campus that day so I gave him a call (we hadn't talked in half a year) and ended up having a chat for an hour about how life has progressed for the both of us, which I really appreciated because I also don't call people in general very much and it was rewarding to have a spontaneous call like that! I also took the opportunity to experience the metro system (NZ could do with better public transport, I was pretty impressed) and see a little bit of the central city, a lot more alive than what we have in NZ. None of this would have happened if I decided to ask my parents first, who were expecting me in Sri Lanka, and would have to wait another day to see me because I ended up finding out upon arriving back to the airport that, being one of the last people to check-in after my little tour pushed the limits of my schedule, they had overbooked the flight to Colombo. They ended up putting me on the next flight to Doha to get to Colombo from there – thankfully without any extra expense on our end since SriLankan Airlines overbooked the flight. I don't think I'll try escaping to the city again on that tight of a schedule, but it was more than I had thought was going to happen when I started the trip, and I also got to visit Qatar (well just the airport) for the first time too, haha.
I'll start with my own example. I was in Sri Lanka the past few weeks and to get there I had an eight hour layover in Melbourne. The city I've been trying to go to study in for years at this point. Well the last time I had been there was about ten years ago and when I was going up the escalator to the international terminal I had the thought of popping out to check on some of my friends who had moved there after high school. That ended up with me buying a Myki card and finding my way to RMIT, where one of my close friends went to study interior design, and also the University of Melbourne where I met someone I knew from an online community who began studying there this year. We had a good time talking about the differences between Melbourne and New Zealand and our involvement in that community; as for my friend at RMIT he wasn't on campus that day so I gave him a call (we hadn't talked in half a year) and ended up having a chat for an hour about how life has progressed for the both of us, which I really appreciated because I also don't call people in general very much and it was rewarding to have a spontaneous call like that! I also took the opportunity to experience the metro system (NZ could do with better public transport, I was pretty impressed) and see a little bit of the central city, a lot more alive than what we have in NZ. None of this would have happened if I decided to ask my parents first, who were expecting me in Sri Lanka, and would have to wait another day to see me because I ended up finding out upon arriving back to the airport that, being one of the last people to check-in after my little tour pushed the limits of my schedule, they had overbooked the flight to Colombo. They ended up putting me on the next flight to Doha to get to Colombo from there – thankfully without any extra expense on our end since SriLankan Airlines overbooked the flight. I don't think I'll try escaping to the city again on that tight of a schedule, but it was more than I had thought was going to happen when I started the trip, and I also got to visit Qatar (well just the airport) for the first time too, haha.
