Efficient Destinies

"I sensed your sigh of relief." 

And yes it was palpable.  The client making your choice for you, helping avoid the hasty preparation of a bid document and then presentation on the return next week from NFLD.  All for what?  More work and hastle that may only get in the way of the inevitable escape?  The firm has been kind to you when it comes to mapping out the future, offering what is needed when it is needed, and ensuring things never spiral too far beyond control.  Imagine the way in which this path not taken could have spoiled Brazil, for example, and it is with relief indeed that you can close that chapter.

Destinies looks a funny word in the plural.  Maybe that's in part because properly speaking there is only one?  Some nights I would never buy that line, but at other times you wonder...  There are points that drive decisions, telescoping the options until certain routes and voyages cannot but be followed.  How much choice remains, in the end?  Somewhere in this long chronicle or in notebooks past, surely there are musings on a similar theme, about how untroubling it is that obstacles and limits and inconveniences emerge to in order to reassure and guide you along the way that needs taking?

This RFP had a strange and eery sense about it, allowing for the imagining of a possible partnership future for the next few years.  As a proper grown-up, even.  And then, like that, the curtain is (mercifully) pulled back again, and order in the future traveling universe (for now) is restored.

An interesting perspective to add to the Caipirinha conversation mixer, if nothing else.  I wonder...