Paris is Always a Good Idea
How embracing the unexpected gave me one of the best days of my life.
I've had some pretty cool things happen to me that weren't things I worked for or even necessarily 'deserved.'
Over the weekend, watching highlights of this year’s Tour de France reminded me of one. I was in Paris the day before the Tour ended in 1997.
I had gone to France for work which was cool on its own, but while the rest of the team went home, I got to stay an extra day because of limited seats on available flights.
I wandered the streets of Paris, all expenses paid for a day without a care in the world. I took the train to what I thought was Versailles and ended up in a small village where the only person I could find was the station agent who didn't speak English.
Somehow together, we managed to get me back to Paris. I left the following day just as the riders entered the city. It remains in my memory as one of my life's best and most free days.
A total embrace of the serendipity of the moment and something that just came along, a great blessing.
Of course, my flight home nearly ended in a crash landing, but that is a story for another day.
What happens when we embrace the unexpected? When we live in the moment, embrace serendipity?
