Saturday, May 29, 2010

The Push We Needed......

.....came today. A cold and rainy Saturday morning.

To cut a long story short, we came across some people in a mall carpark, whose 4WD had two slashed tyres. We initially passed by, smiling sympathetically at their situation. Before we had even reached our car 20metres away, we had decided that we should see if we could help in any way.
As it turned out, they had been unable to contact any family or friends, and were just deciding what they should do. We helped them out with a ride to and from a tyre workshop, and Tim helped put the temporary tyres on so they could at least drive home.
Helping out didn't cost us anything. We had our lunch a little later than we had planned, no big deal there.

Anyhow, after we got home, Tim took the dogs for a run out at the forest. While he was away, I got to thinking that we really ought to make ourselves Interruptable more often. We've talked about it so many times.

When Tim arrived home, I suggested this idea of An Interruptable Year to him, and he was all for it. We thought about writing down all the experiences that the year brings, and perhaps even one day publishing a book to encourage others to be Interruptable too. And then it hit us, the idea of getting totally with the times, by blogging all our experiences.

So this is it, our family blog. To see what the next 12 months bring as we go about our Interruptable Year. We don't really know what to expect. Will it be a complete letdown? A year spent changing tyres in the rain, helping old ladies across roads, and spending all our money on driving people all over the city doesn't really sound so appealing does it.

We are hoping for a fair bit more than that to be honest. We are hoping to see a change in ourselves, and to inspire a change in others. Ideally, everyone in the world will read our blog, and the idea of being Interruptable will become so popular that world peace will be nothing less than certain. We'll see in a year's time I guess.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Rach, thanks for writing so honestly, truthfully and insightfully. I'm so happy you're blogging! It's a wonderful world and I know you'll find every success and fulfilment from it - just like I do.
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