Life on cruise control - feeling the flow
May 6th, 2007
Last couple of weeks things have been picking up, both at work and socially, and now life is officially on cruise control. Once the train starts rolling it just goes on and the options are getting limited.
If you don’t do anything life progresses rapidly, you get a lot of work done, meet a lot of new people and get little sleep and almost no time to relax. The fun part is that you never know what is going to happen, the disadvantage is that you don’t get to decide
Working in flow-mode is excellent, you get a lot of things done, time just flies by and genereally quality is high. Social life however tends to suffer slightly.
The other alternative is to jump off, and break the rythm. This weekend I have left the Brussels-train and are off to Stockholm and a Taizé-gathering. Taizé, for those who do not know it, is a small monestary close to Lyon in France and the focus of the gathering is prayer and reflection. Quite a HUGE difference from my current life, but I am really looking forward to a reality check to stop and see where I am actually headed in my life and perhaps make some adjustments.
The change is going to particularly huge as today has been a crazy day at work with lots and lots of document review and really focused work. The day ended by waiting nervously for a taxi to the airport that never arrived and finally jumping into the car of another taxi driver that resembled the one in the Taxi movies. Traffic to the airport was crazy, but we still did it 15 minutes faster than our collegues that left half an hour earlier. Then arriving at the airport, rushing to meet up with some friends, discovering another friend at the gate who is also going to Stockholm, calling my hosts and now slowly transitioning into the Taize rythm (going to find the iPod with my Taizé song collection once I finish this entry).
So, where are you going today and what train are you on?
Signing off from the skies above europe.
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