Sunday, January 21, 2007

Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans

Achievements are so often meassured with professional classes, professional progress. Wishes and ambitions are so often translated into careers. But my father reminded me of this other path of life a human being is walking on: de loopbaan. Career in English, but for us it is something else, it is the path, the road we follow like a heavenly body has its orbit, it is the road we run. But however we plan or think about how we want our road to be, it will always be different. We made a sketch for Utopia I, or part one of our trip, we named some cities along our road to Japan. But what does it mean? When time boundaries fade away, when the world becomes your space and life is about being and moving what kind of plan do you need?

Utopia I (or the sketch) will bring us through Vilnius, Minsk, Kiev, Cherkasy, Kharkiv, Voronezh, Saratov, Samara, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Ulan Ude, Ulan Bator, Beijing, Qingdao to a boat called Utopia II

This is the prognostication, and it looks like a beginning of a plan :)

In the meanwhile winter has surrounded me in Tallinn, the joy of snow pictures symplicity, awakens childlike amazement . It warms me.

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