Real simple rule…….Don’t Plan ……….. something will happen to mess it up.
We didn’t follow that rule and bought discount tickets for our New Years Holiday, which is nicely color-coded red on our school calendar. The color red means we have off. I assumed that those would really, actually, for sure, be the days off. NOPE, We just learned last night, one week before our nicely planned trip to Guilin that we really have Monday Tuesday and Wednesday off and have to work Saturday and Sunday instead. So instead of leaving Friday evening as we HAD PLANNED – we had to pay extra to change our tickets to Monday morning (no flights on Sunday afternoon). If I hadn’t experienced a years worth of this kind of stuff it would have really upset me. But I have realized it is a waste of energy to get mad – ya just gotta go with the flow. Maybe they do this sort of thing on purpose because it sort of erodes any feeling of control you have over your life.
Above picture is of a group of kids doing graffiti in China. They are using water.
