dariaphoebe/3oct2013.txt

## 3oct2013.txt
It's easy to forget the task at hand. Moreso if like me you are easily distracted. I have a plan for my journey, even if that plan is not playing out on a timeline quite as aggressive as I'd like. Sometimes, though, sticking with the plan requires reminders.

From the chain around my neck hangs a small token, serving to remind me of my plan. I mean that literally: it's a 1922 Pittsburgh Railways trolley token, redeemable (90 years ago) for a journey practically anywhere in the city. Most of my physical journeys these days turn out to be confined to Pittsburgh. This is surprising when you consider that it used to be nothing to me to drop what I was doing, get in the car and drive a couple hundred miles to hang out with someone, have dinner somewhere new or different, or visit some site of interest. It still happens (dim sum, a brew and the West Side Market in Cleveland, for instance) but moving somewhere that I can walk to so many places has ruined me for driving. It would be easy, as the world I experience regularly contracts, to develop a provincial perspective.

Step 15: remember you are part of the world, and the world is more than what exists in your immediate vicinity. Play your part in making things better everywhere, not just where you are today.
	It's easy to forget the task at hand. Moreso if like me you are easily distracted. I have a plan for my journey, even if that plan is not playing out on a timeline quite as aggressive as I'd like. Sometimes, though, sticking with the plan requires reminders.

	From the chain around my neck hangs a small token, serving to remind me of my plan. I mean that literally: it's a 1922 Pittsburgh Railways trolley token, redeemable (90 years ago) for a journey practically anywhere in the city. Most of my physical journeys these days turn out to be confined to Pittsburgh. This is surprising when you consider that it used to be nothing to me to drop what I was doing, get in the car and drive a couple hundred miles to hang out with someone, have dinner somewhere new or different, or visit some site of interest. It still happens (dim sum, a brew and the West Side Market in Cleveland, for instance) but moving somewhere that I can walk to so many places has ruined me for driving. It would be easy, as the world I experience regularly contracts, to develop a provincial perspective.

	Step 15: remember you are part of the world, and the world is more than what exists in your immediate vicinity. Play your part in making things better everywhere, not just where you are today.