Took the wrong trains, and she'd still, gained that extra vacation she didn't plan to go on, and, also, got the hard-to-come-by opportunity to meet up with her son, who works on a ship too! Translated…
My best friend, M is independent and optimistic, although her son who works on a merchant ship as a first mate, and can only come home once he's sailing once or twice a year, her married youngest son doesn't live with her, in her empty nest, she'd busied herself around, to have no time to feel bad for herself, because she loved photograph and enjoyed volunteering, her days are fulfilled and happy. When she's not on call, she'd often carried her camera, up the mountains, down to the, seas, chasing the maples, the flowers, leaving all the beautiful tracks in her photograph, although I'd jokingly named her "Energizer Grandma", I'm actually, in awe of the attitude she carried to living actively.
M laughed and told me, that she actually, is a scatterbrain, and would often cause the humorous moment in her life, she'd taken the words of Master Shen-Yen, "when a problem surfaces, face it, deal with it, accept it, then, let it go", she'd applied these four principles in her life, she could always, take everything as it comes. Awhile ago, she'd heard the red forest of the pine needles in Luodong Exercise Park was beautiful, she'd slung her camera on her back, taken the trains there, in the early evenings, she'd texted me, "I'm on my way home now, after I sorted through the photos I took today, I'll share them with you."
her get-up-and-go attitude...without any plans, just taking life as it comes...photo from online
I didn't have the time to respond to her yet, she'd texted, "oopsy! I took the wrong train, took the Zichiang straight to Hualien instead of the northbound.", then, told me, that it's okay, that she was going to treat this as an accidental vacation, and that she's staying in Hualien that night, she could have a day-long tour of the city the following day. She'd stayed at a hostel close to the train station, and, as she'd settled herself in, she'd wanted to call her youngest, and, her eldest called, told that his business ship was docking for the supplies in Hualien. And, this wrong ride by accident, gave the two of them time to spend together, she got to see her eldest whom she hadn't seen for a whole of six months, it'd made M ecstatic, "this wrong ride was, so totally, WORTH it!"
I'm thinking, that it's her no-plans, easy-going, whatever-may-come attitude, that's caused her to have a good ending on this taking the wrong trains; had it been me, who's timid, and anxious of mind, soon as I'd found I was on the wrong train, I probably would've gotten, totally, stressed out, not knowing how to, cope. I should, really, learn from, her!
So, this still just showed, how WELL those, plans worked, this woman took the train the wrong bound by accident, and yet, she wasn't, flustered, because it'd disturbed her original plans of doing something, instead, she feels, at ease, to take this, mini-vacation that was granted to her, by her own, mistake, and she got to meet up with her son, whom she hadn't seen in a long, long time too. It's a blessing, that she can be, so, serendipitous, not needing everything to go a certain way.
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