Hi,
Living on autopilot for me is a distant and vague memory of the time when I was a child living with my parents, when the routine was to get up, have breakfast, go to school, eat, study, play with friends, have dinner and sleep.
It has already rained since that time and looking at my life with perspective, I have the feeling that little by little I have been getting used to live in a maelstrom in which spontaneity and with some improvisation has become my routine.
University Period
When I was 18 years old I started university, far from the town where I grew up with my parents and, therefore, with a certain freedom. It is clear that there were class schedules that partly marked my routine, but outside class time plans with friends were all an improvisation every day thinking about what to do to have fun and enjoy life.
Do you remember meeting with classmates without any plan and the pleasure of having a good time without planning it?
For me that improvisation and living the moment with the people you loved is an experience that even now remembering it moves me.
A job all over Spain
Once I finished university and my PhD, I started working for a company giving training courses in laboratories all over Spain.
Therefore, I started to have a more orderly schedule, but from one week to the next and even at the beginning of the week, a training course or an urgent consultancy would come up and I would have to improvise a travel plan from one end of the country to the other.
The following two photographs were taken on consecutive days in the city of A Coruña and in Madrid (500km away).
At the Tower of Hercules in A Coruña
At Repsol's research center near Madrid
Far from what you may think, living always with a suitcase ready at home in case you have to go on a trip is not stressful for me. I always see every trip as an opportunity to visit new places, discover the variety of my country's gastronomy and get to know the different characters that exist in a multicultural country like Spain.
Delicious shrimps Andalusian style in Seville
The Golden Tower of Seville at sunset
Delicious Galician octopus that I had for dinner last night in Lugo
Roman wall of Lugo, more than 2km long, which I walked before dinner
In short, for me living improvisedly changing cities about 10 times a month with little planning has been my autopilot routine for years and I have managed to live happily seeing the positive side of the circumstances.
Due to this improvised way of being from one place to another, I have managed to have very good friends in almost all the big cities of Spain.
With my friend Laura who works in Canfranc (Aragón) enjoying a dinner after a training in her laboratory.
This has given me a good network of friends and to know that in case of a problem, no matter how far from home you are, you always have someone to turn to within a very small radius of kilometers. This is a great advantage in my life where spontaneity reigns and has become a routine.
Best regards.
