Day 152: Unexpected

Today was a fasting day.

As I mentioned in my blog from 2 days ago we had a mini crisis during our trip which caused some friction in our travel party.  In the interest of maintaining my healthy marriage I will not go into specific details. Instead, lets just ask a hypothetical question:  If you are going on a trip is it better to plan everything in order to avoid any mishaps or crises, or is it better to leave things to chance and take events as they come ?   Of course many people might say you need a bit of both, which is a fair point.  But I do believe that if you over plan you might lose the capacity to deal with the unexpected.  No amount of advance planning can prepare you for all possible outcomes, which means that you need to have the capacity to deal with the unexpected.  This is especially true for kids, its a lot easier to add planning as a skill in later life than it is to learn crisis management.  Kids need to be taught to appreciate adventure and to see that even if things don't go according to the initial plan its always possible to make new plan.