Its amazing what a little head space allows. You see as I am still on holiday, my capacity for thinking is significantly improved, so instead of just throwing things into a bag and running to the airport, I actually planned my trip with more thought.
The day before I made myself a fresh ginger and lemon tea. You see following virtually all long haul flights, I walk off the plane with a stinking cold. Its like clock work, the wheels touch the runway and out comes the first sneeze. So my hope is that fresh chopped ginger will boost the immune system like it promises with a ton of vitamin C to go!
Now as I wait in the lounge, I avoid the coffee and the alcohol of course, and head straight to the bowl of nectarines. Is a banana or apple the next best option?
In addition, the holiday head space allowed me to pack smartly. As always with just handluggage, but with the additional challenge of gifts (as I have been advised to take with me) and 2 computers. These days soemhome I need both my laptop and my PC. This does seem counter productive. And I am going for 7 days. But I did it with a bit of planning and maneuvering.
Also in line with a kind of new year resolution that I did not really make but do plan to embrace more, I chose to go to the airport earlier than I usually would. Infact an hour earlier.
So here I am at the airport with time to kill, another unusual phenomenon. It is in the hope of giving me that needed time to breathe and replace the constant rushing and time managing, because really the extra 10 minutes here or there saved by rushing, may be better spent taking it a little easy and hey who knows that may also help beating the long haul flight diseases I always walk out with.
Will let you know in 12 hours when I land in Shanghai.
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