reflection

I find it very easy to sink into a routine. Having a predicable schedule makes it easy to prepare for the week ahead and while there's a limit to the amount on uncertantity I can introduce during the week I've been trying to incorporate more chaos during the weekends.

Which is why I'm sitting in the 24 hour Pancake Parlour at 11pm writing this and eating the Bavarian Apple stack.

There are more people here than I anticipated, forgetting my headphones means I can hear the cacophony of conversations around - from the uni students cramming, to the families jeering. A reminder that chaos by its nature is unpredictabe and while you can seek it out it's never going to be exactly what you expected.

How often do you go on Safari?

We’re often comfortable in our bubble, going to the same places, seeing the same people, having the same conversations. We find ourselves in patterns of repetition faster than we anticipate.

Sometimes being presented a new situation is so jarring that we seldom handle it with the wit and elegance we’re capable of.

Other times we find ourselves incapable of escaping a situation that we desperately want to. It’s times like these when I reach for my safari hat, becoming a curious observer of a new phenomenon - something that I need to document and comprehend so that it may one day become completely familiar.