Everyday ends in Y?!

Tuesday: not my favorite day of the week but it is a day and as such I should make the most of it. On the tube this morning I sat and read my book much like any other day, but this shouldn’t be like any other day - surely no day should. This was a brand spanking new day, a day of all days, and as Bill Pullman said in the classic 1996 disaster film of the same name...’Today I shall celebrate my Independence Day’...slightly re-worded there for effect.

I arrived at Paddington station, the stop where most people jump on and off with their lives packed into ‘tiny’ suitcases and I watched. I sat there and I watched, waiting for these people to board, but there were no such people and not even a flicker of those ‘tiny’ suitcases. Where had they all gone? Was no one traveling today? And then I realised that it was 7 in the morning and most people only rise at this hour to go to work or to...wait...TO TRAVEL! This got me thinking, which is usually never a good thing. I started to imagine what it would be like if one day everybody just stopped traveling, and if no one ever went anywhere. What would we learn? What would we experience? Nothing? Something? Would our village or city be like a giant prison that we could never escape? What if we couldn’t even leave our own houses, would we waste everyday just sitting down? Would it be a waste? ...I feel an apocalypse coming on!

In many ways this would obviously be a bad thing, but if we had never experienced anything else then we wouldn’t have anything else to compare it to. So I pose this question ‘Would we make the most of every day if we didn’t know any better?’ Jury’s out I guess, although I believe testing this with two new born’s in a controlled environment would make a fantastic experiment for all you scientists out there...I’ll await my royalties!

The world is huge, but also on the grand scale of things it’s exceptionally small. So if the world is no greater than your city or village then (for example) Paris, isn’t really that far away - in fact it’s just around the corner. And if Paris is just around the corner then it shouldn’t take too much time to travel there. Maybe if we think like this then the world will indeed become a much smaller place. Travel is a massive part of our everyday lives in whichever way you look at it - a small walk to the bathroom or a long haul flight to the other side of the world, it’s all the same really. Every day we travel and every day is different to the last, and if it isn’t (and you want it to be) then be that change and embrace it. Everything we did yesterday makes us who we are today, so wherever tomorrow takes you remember that 1 day is really, all you need.

Answer’s on a postcard: The word ‘festive’ is just a word, and it can be used at any time of the year - so it’s happening, deal with it. Crabs use their gills to extract oxygen from the water like a fish - it’s weird and not at all relevant...and what’s in Skegness? I still don’t know the answer to this and perhaps I never should.

Next time on Your Head Not Mine...Where was I even going today? Did Bill Pullman celebrate his own Independence Day? And who invented the post it note? I’m telling you it’s a Tuesday Miracle! Tune in soon to find out…BOOM!