About to take off...

Sitting at the gate, waiting to board flight 8262 from United which is actually a Air Canada plane with another flight number, ho well…

It’s 7:23AM, we’re boarding at 7:30 to take off at 8:05. So I had set my alarm clock set at 5:00AM knowing I would take some time to get out of bed, in the shower, then in the car, on the road and to the airport early enough in case there would be some traffic at the customs and security. Of course, I had forgotten to print the details of my trip and the computer connected to my printer crashed (what else is new?)…

But I made it early enough to have time for a large latte and muffin (which I’m still taking some sips and pieces between the lines, like… now… :-))…

It amazes me to see the amount of detailed organizations our lives are floating through. Can you imagine the number of ideas from different people needed to converge so that the last 2 and half hours I have just lived worked as it did?

Some might say that simpler would be better. I could have woken up at the same time, have a breakfast at home, made from food that would have been raised on my land by a women that would have given me zillions of kids so that we would all get out of the house at sunrise and take care of the land and stock that feeds us. I would have built our house from my own hands with wood that I would cut myself on the land I own, etc… etc… etc…

But I was born with a set of skills that suites computer science so much better. And working for Google, which helps so many people find the information they are looking for. A company like Google, based on a technology like computers and Internet wouldn’t exist without the collaboration of multiple generations of people having the talent, the energy and the will to invent new things to make the life of others easier and hopefully more enjoyable.

Even though many people complain that technology has brought us a stressful fast pace life, I think it improved so many other things that it was worth it. It is just up to us to take the good and leave the bad out of it. Relax, don’t stress, breath in, breath out, one step at time, things will be good if you are good… Just trust your good side and invest a little bit of effort controlling the bad one, you’ll soon see, that you won’t try to blame technology so much anymore :-)

OK, boarding time… Talk to you later :-)

BYE
MAD
P.S.: Pour les francophones je vais aussi documenter mon voyage en Californie sur mon autre blog mad-voyages…