Everything is Relative

Just a few years ago, our genius, Al Onestone, I am talking about Albert Einstein, said it – he claimed that “Everything is Relative.”

This morning on the plane from Rio to Paris I remembered Al and not by chance.

This particular commute, Rio de Janeiro-Barcelona with a layover in Paris gets a bit lengthy and tiring, obviously thanks to the number of hours, the layover, lack of sleep, etc, anyway enough said, but it is clear in the end it is unfriendly travel.

This being said, here it is when I recalled our friend Al when speaking to an Indian couple, they were telling me about their trip and how it was a long commute for them from Rio to their final destination. The story was interesting and it was as follows: up to Paris it was kust like my trip, so around 11 hours. After Paris they had a layover of around 3 hours there, just enough time to get them ready for another 11 hours to Mumbai. Once there, they still were to enjoy another nice layover of a couple of hours until catching to the final plane that would take them to their home town where they would arrive at around 7h am, so literally one more day of flying when speaking in local times.

After this short story, the moral that the woman was telling was that at nearly at 50 the trip itself was a bit tiring, but the story was not ending there, she went on saying, “as we get there early in the morning, we take advantage of the day. My husband already has a meeting at 9h30 and I am off to my duties”. At that second, I had to reach around to get my jae and put it back as it had fell off while listening to their story. Clearly enough, I could only add to it when comparing it to my trip being extremely tiring “Everything is Relative”

Nomads

Reading an article in the Economist at Rio’s airport, on my way to Barcelona via Madrid, after a week or so in Brazilian soil, has seduced me enough to check if wifi was around (as you can read, it was) and BINGO! Here we are writing about the so called “new” term that defines to some extent the new profile of some of our kind.

Nomads that we are. We come and go, gather and flock, meeting with people personally and virtually, communicating, sharing, creating, entertaining and working. The new technologies have made it possible that we can do all these things in many more different ways than what we usually used to do.

The whole “new” mobile way of living allows many new life styles that do not force the physical location to “be” at a place to do something. Digital era has leveraged on the productivity to be irelevant in terms of geography, at some times depending on how far time zone can play a role, but usually it is not an issue.

this is what we are, travelling but on the loop, it is interesting how our ways have changed, the role of mobile connectivity and the way we use our mobile devices has come a long way up to now, but what is next? Comments are welcome!!!