Communio, it is.

Well, a week later, communio does win the day.

Last Friday, I had another first in my Bangkok.  Even after over 12 years here, I keep having firsts.  It is that sort of place.  It was a ride on a motor bike but not just another ride in Bangkok where bikes are a way of life.  The difference this time was that I was on the back of a motor bike during heavy rain.  It is not what I would normally do but I had no choice as otherwise I would be stuck waiting out a storm into the night.  So onto the back of Om's bike I went and into the rain.  The ride was wet and wild. and free.  The worse that happened was I got wet and that was no harm.  It was such good fun but still I will not be doing it every week.

If there is to be a deeper interpretation of the experience, it is to be found in the sense of freedom felt and the fun enjoyed with a friend.  Is that not communio, at least in part?

Then in this same week, another experience was to be part of management meeting at my workplace.  What I was hearing being described by staff was a closed system, a system that was not welcoming and not experiencing great joy.  Its pay-off is something else - security and control.  The latter does not work, while the former does not assure happiness and is not everything.  My line to that meeting was to open our minds and be open to the new.  Compared to my simple motor bike ride, this experience was deadening.  Not the way to go.

As we come together, it is about diversity and it doers involve disagreement but let us not overlook the joy of life.  Life is not all hard work. It is much more - sharing, enjoying, working out issues together, building a bit of harmony.  Communio does win the day and a simple life experience of a motor bike ride with a friend reminded me of that.

I have no photo this week as I want to share the exhilaration of my ride in the rain and not of a depressing meeting.  Fact is I could not use my smartphone in the heavy rain.  One also has to be realistic.