Sometimes, you decide to shove yourself into a new room. You have a clear sense that something will be good and better for having done it, but mostly you know time is limited. Things need to be gotten to. I seem to have gotten into this habit. You sign up for a new project, you put yourself on a plane, you ask for a meeting, you send an email, and you go. The last part is the most important. I have done that many times, and I have often felt tired while in route.

So.

There you are. You are in that new space, and it has the same sensation as walking down a long hallway. You keep tunneling (walking) your way through it. You remind yourself “there is no frustration” and you keep going in each step. This is my Spanish. It feels like a forever long passageway. You (gently) shoved yourself into a new part of Peru, where everyone speaks with a very different accent with odd new words. In a new world. And then the sensation returns that you just keep going. At some point on that long hallway, into your field of vision, enters a new room. You didn´t shove your way into this one. The air feels a little fresher. The lighting has changed in this scene. And something about you is just a little bit different. Perhaps that is because when you go to a huge amout of trouble to learn something, things do change over time.

Iquitos. Taken during my first visit there in November 2018.