Why being unreasonable is the most sensible strategy

A while back, I lost my drive.

Don’t worry. I was okay. I wasn’t having a full-blown mid-life crisis.

It was more of a dull, creeping kind of hum that seemed to whisper to me that work wasn’t particularly interesting anymore.

Often, I like to read through articles I’d written from many years ago. To see what kinds of thoughts I was having when I had a few less wrinkles.

I found an article about being unreasonable.

As I read, I felt myself reviving, like a cup of warm water filling slowly.

It hit me with a ping to my left nipple.

I’d been too reasonable recently.

I then remembered when I was living in Ho Chi Minh City and my soul buzzed like the throng of mopeds passing my window each day.

I had made the ‘unreasonable’ decision to motorbike through Vietnam with little experience with a guy I’d met only briefly in the airport.

I was a little scared, but I also felt alive.

In fact, every time I’d made a decision to do what few do; to do things that most would say are a ’little over the top, Alex,’ life becomes colourful again.