When I was halfway home from work today, I felt like I needed to go for a long walk. So I hopped off the subway last minute and started walking in whichever direction I felt like going. Whenever I came to an intersection, if the pedestrian light had more than 7 seconds on the timer, I’d cross the street. The point of the exercise was to head towards the water by the lake.

At one point, I was at the northern tip of Queen’s Park and the view of the park was stunning at that hour. I also noted to myself how rare it is that I am walking along this path. Moments later, I saw a new friend of mine that I had just met on the weekend, and she was really rocking it out to her music on her headphones. I almost felt bad interrupting her to say hi but I did it anyway so that the moment wouldn’t slip. We had short chat and parted our ways. I had to make a detour at University and Queen with the protest going on, but it didn’t seem to affect the flow of the walk at all.

An hour later when I reached the lake, all I could think of was that there are many ways to arrive at where you want to go. If you stumble around, happy accidents happen. Thanks, Sagmeister.