Humans have plenty of field trips ahead of them.

We live in a solar system moving at 558 thousand miles an hour, in a galaxy travelling at 666 thousand miles an hour, in a universe we estimate to know less than five per cent of – most of it being made up of dark matter and black holes.

In such a universe, wouldn’t it be strange not to think of ourselves as travellers.

Humans are made for change.

On field trips, things happen inside as well as outside of us.

Travelling to an unfamiliar place not only holds the possibility of engaging with an environment and its contents but also for the environment and its contents to engage with us.  That’s why they’re so powerful for the Human adventure.

We can travel to places for field trips and we can travel to different times – and the  most disorientating and change-making is the future.  Here, we get to ask a different question to “What are we post-?”  We get to ask, “What are we pre-?”

If the universe is expanding, why not Humans?  (Individually, when we identify an open-ended story for our lives that we like, we can explore living it to the full.)

Here is the greatest field trip of all.*

(*I’d count reading a book, connecting with a tribe, visiting a place, undertaking a task, setting personal goals, and more, as being field trips which can lead to change.  What might yours be?)
(The quote for today’s cartoon comes from Seth Godin’s Graceful.)