Wednesday 3 August 2011

The Power of Impulse.

Helen was telling me today about her friend Louise, who recently got rid of her house and possessions, and then took off for Germany accompanied only by her bike, a few clothes and her mobile phone. She wanted to ride through Germany en route to Austria, and is currently terrified every night sleeping out alone in the Black Forest.

She doesn’t know why she’s doing it, where she’ll end up, or what she’s going to do when she gets there. She just wanted to give everything up and do it.

That’s unusual, don’t you think?

2 comments:

Della said...

Very unusual, good for her. I'd also be frightened sleeping alone in the forest. Not because of the animals, though.

JJ said...

Louise's problem, Della, is that she sees thngs - really SEES them. And I might add that she's a highly intelligent, highly educated woman with a calm and rational disposition.