Chris Guillebeau

you have to think about how to be of service and also how to have fun and enjoy life yourself, which is also something that I, I don't historically do a good job of like, I want to have fun.

I'm going to do, you know, like I actually wrote about it.

And it's like, like, how do I practice having fun?

Right.

It's a whole chapter about this.

And I like,

I have the story of this guy in the Netherlands named Jan who for like 30 years, every Wednesday, he would go to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport and book a flight somewhere within Europe, wherever was cheapest.

He'd fly to Stockholm or Barcelona or somewhere and he would just kind of hang out and he would like walk around the terminal and he'd fly back.

Never leave the airport.

Okay.

It's so interesting.

This is what he liked to do.

He just like he found it really peaceful, enjoyable, relaxing and so on.

So it's it's so easy to criticize that, you know, be like, well, he never he traveled so much and never traveled at all.

Right.

But it's a small thing that made him happy.

You know, and I think, you know, if we can all find like small things that make us happy, even if they seem weird to other people or strange or like, why would you do that?

then our lives are going to be better.

And I was thinking about his story one day when I went for a walk, I found this restaurant I wanted to go to that was like 17 miles from my house.

I thought about it for maybe like a few days in advance, but not, not too long.