Source https://zenhabits.net/flexible-chaos/
By Leo Babauta
Today Eva and I decided at the last minute to move our round-the-world trip up two days early, to avoid running into a strong typhoon that was headed our way.
Luckily, we travel lightly and are flexible enough that the switch in plans wasn’t too difficult.
We put up some typhoon shutters, bought our kids some food to eat as they weather out the storm with their grandma, and packed our bags.
Through all of this, we felt tremendous groundlessness, leaving our kids as the storm approached (though we know they’ll be safe), going into Africa armed with typhoid and yellow fever vaccinations and a handful of malaria pills, a bunch of work left undone as we headed to the airport.
What is helping us in this time of chaos and uncertainty, in this time of groundlessness … is two things:
- Having the flexibility of traveling lightly; and
- Grounding ourselves in the center of the storm of our lives.
I’d like to share a little about these, because I believe they have larger lessons for our everyday lives and the groundlessness we feel all the time.
If we can practice in the middle of a 3-week trip that starts on Guam and goes through Asia and Europe, centers on a safari in Kenya, then goes back across Europe and North America to California, and finally back through Asia (Tokyo) and landing back on Guam … if we can …