One of my all-time favorite movies is Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road. You might have not watched it, and if you haven’t, I don’t know what you are waiting for because you are missing on so many great things about it. It tells a story, a road story actually, about a young man named Neil Oliver who drives through the interstate neither he nor the maps never heard of. He signed a contract on delivering a package to someone and he was thinking it would be easy. It appears to be the opposite for the road trip leads him to the places he never expected to go and to the people he never thought he would meet.

There is a quote I love in that movie. I’ve been keeping repeating it to myself for fifteen years, and it never failed me. It is the leprechaun with red hair, a pipe in the form of a monkey’s head and a bunch of other bizarre peculiarities who says it, and still, it sounds pretty convincing. ‘Every event is inevitable – if it wasn’t, it wouldn’t happen’, he says.

To me, it is about the beauty of life, the acceptance, and trust. And also about the characters, we are writing about. About their paths and their stories. Just like the characters in the stories we write, with every step we make in this path we discover ourselves, our identities more. It is like uncovering our true essence with every new experience a little bit more until we finally feel complete. And then we can turn back to see the kaleidoscope of the random events, big and small, important and all your decisions, victories and failures to come together like a puzzle. Everything appears to be subject to divine logic, everything makes sense. It feels like there were no coincidences, only the chain of patterned events, which brought us here to this exact point in time and space where we feel complete. It feels like there is fate or the divine idea for us. And just like we are following our characters in the stories we write, there is something bigger than us, something above our understanding which follows us in our life stories. Our paths. On our interstates not depicted in the maps, just like that of Neil Oliver.

And as Neil Oliver said somewhere in that movie: ‘I love this highway!’ I love it too, you know. I do.