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π Reading this post reminds me of my father, an incredibly multifaceted man for whom the word "planning" seemed to make him extremely uncomfortable π... He would do things like come home on a Friday, throw a couple of shirts and a pair of pants into a backpack, get in the car, start it, and yell from inside: "Let's go spend the weekend in 'Merida'!"... A tourist city 450 km from our home!... And anyone who wasn't in the car within the next 5 minutes simply stayed home (and that even applied to my mother) π... It was chaotic, but that was often how my father was!... And I, who am even a systems engineer and therefore "planning" is something I had very much in mind during my career, once I was an adult I asked my father: "Can you tell me why you're like this, why you try to do everything on the spur of the moment without thinking, Dad?"... And my father, with a whiskey in his hand (as he did almost every afternoon) blurted out She burst into loud laughter and said to me, "Kid!... Don't you know that a donkey that thinks will throw away its load?" π... And she kept laughing... My childhood and youth were full of that, but fortunately my mother (still alive) worked as a teacher for about 40 years and has a devastatingly strong character... And she certainly knows how to plan everything! π
As always, your article is excellent, with fresh and eloquent writing that even makes one want to write!
Thanks for sharing @michupa friend!
There is a lot of wisdom in this story, thank you for sharing! Very interesting overall, but from an outside perspective, I can see how your fatherβs improvisational way of living and your motherβs natural inclination for planning could be the ideal balance for things to work out. Very good!