One of my uncles was in town, so we met up to walk and talk. On my way into London, I realised that flow makes things better. What I mean by that is that change and adaptation are key ingredients for change and improvement. For example, run down areas tend to be more static in terms of people moving in and out, not to mention investment and upkeep. Whereas, areas with the exact same kinds of houses/people that have movement, are more likely to continuously improve. I wonder if that makes any sense the way I've written it :)
You wouldn't believe how many realtor shops there are here and how many people stop to look at them. People seem to always be moving. I think the same is true for knowledge, it needs to move. The phrase shouldn't be "knowledge is power", it should be "knowledge shared is growth and success", but I guess that isn't as catchy :)
Back to the train ride to meet my uncle, I stood next to a group of 4 people that were clearly together. Looked like a Mom dad son and friend of dads. The boy was jumping around a bit, hanging from a high bar on the tube. Accidentally he smacked his mom as he fell off bar once. Mom was startled and instantly said "stop it, I see you wanting attention because the boys are talking". The Boy was about 9 years old, and he said it's an accident. mom then said "it was an accident likely to happen because of what u were doing, your behaviors we call that. You're a good lad just be aware of your behaviors and the likely things to happen". Things instantly went back to normal. Pretty fascinating piece of parenting?
Uncle Joe and I walked to Holland Park and Kyoto Garden, then Buckingham Palace. We went through green park, Hyde park, regents park, up to Abbey rd, stopped at a few pubs. Mostly it was all about really good conversation. At the end of the day he checked his fitbit (which I didn't know he had ) and it said we walked over 13 miles. Good day :)
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