Back! I have travelled and travelled and travelled some more and finally glad to be back ‘home’ in the UK. It’s been an experience and I am ready to put my feet up and… no, not rest… hehe… do some reflective work in a quiet zone. No doubt I will be writing about it as I chew on things…

Normally I would have put up a customary post on my big day of the year. But I have been thinking—among many other things I have been thinking—that I shouldn’t be so much of a slave to routine or ritual for the sake of them. There’s no harm in being a bit haphazard and chaotic to mix things up, is there? I am not going to be too much of these things because that wouldn’t be me. But I mean, there’s no harm being a bit less ‘I must do this because I must’ and a bit more, ‘go with the flow’ if you know what I mean. Maybe that’s something I am going to try this year. I made a small start when I started dropping off movies on Netflix midway when I found them boring. Isn’t that normal, you might ask. It is but I used to feel a tad bit guilty, maybe a crossover of how I would feel guilty if I didn’t finish a book, as if it was due to lack of discipline or lack of an attention span or something. Needless to say, I pride myself on these kinds of things, on being someone who will go the distance no matter what it takes. But I guess there’s no harm in taking stock of whether some things are really worth making the journey. And some things just aren’t. That just means you have more time and energy for things that are. So I suppose it doesn’t go against my grain at all if I really add up everything.