The A Team goes for Plan B

The World in colour

I am the A Team. Singularly. When Plan A doesn't work, I invent Plan B. When Plan B doesn't work I look to Plan C and so on and so forth. Plan A was to become an airhostess and travel the world with British Airways - (read my first post to see why). Plan B was to power through drama school and become an actress (I applied to audition for Hermione on Harry Potter - read 'My own little Hogwarts' to see why).  Plan C was to be a teacher, but then I decided I really just didn't want to be. 

I've gone through most career options and zipped through the Alphabet with assorted 'Plans' and reckon I'm back at about Plan B, for the second time around.  Plan B) ii) is to go and see the world. Or at the least leave England which I haven't done in almost 18 months. 

I'm staring at the recently acquired map of the world taking up the entire far wall of my room and it's colourful. Not just because I've graffitied it with my 'already visited' and 'aim to visit' colour-coded stickers, but because the map itself is...colourful. 

Canada for example is Green. I'm not sure why Canada is green, perhaps they have a lot of grass there. Spain is a pale shade of Pink. I'm fairly sure there's no pink in the Spanish flag. The sea is Blue- well, that at least is reassuring. I look at the world map and it's multicoloured, it's diverse, it shows variety which is exactly what the map itself represents; an individuality about its population, a uniqueness about each place.  

When I lived in the USA, my sister and I wrote out a list of all 50 states and we kept it in the car.  Whenever we travelled, and we usually did so on a rather epic scale, we contented ourselves to peer out of the window and scrutinize every car registration plate in order to find one from each state.  They were all different; Alabama (our state) said 'Heart of Dixie' and had pink flowers and blue writing.  I don't remember the others so well. But it was fundamentally a task of completion, a small substitution for actually visiting EVERY state.  We completed it during our final few months, with Alaska being the final, devilishly elusive state.  (Apparently no-one on the Interstate was ever from Alaska.) 

My point is (I have slightly digressed here) that seeing the world is for me the ultimate goal of completion. To see what exists to be seen and to be lived; not to take our planet for granted but to recognize that it provides a spectrum of differences, although fundamentally united by similarities.  It would take a lifetime to go everywhere, but we can all aim high.  I will probably not see the entire world, but I shall endeavour to get a glimpse of it if I can.