"Sometimes the wrong turn will get you to the right direction"
A nice little story from a lovely family who came to visit my stall. The mother said this box is true pointing her finger to the box in the picture. She said that on one day she missed a DLR train stop that she supposed to get off ( I know how annoying this could be especially if you are not in the right mood). But because of this, she said, when she get off the train at the next station to take the other train back to the right direction, she met her cousin that she haven't met for sometimes. She wouldn't have met her if she didn't miss her stop on that day.
In everyday life there are many roads we didn't choose to go down. You will never know what is waiting for you had you chosen the other route. There is no such thing as a 'wrong' turn if you can learn a thing or two from it. Many of my designs actually started from a mistake in the beginning. If you keep following the same routine you will always get the same results. This remind me of another good story:
"Soon after Edison revealed his earth-shattering invention, a French reporter asked, “Mr. Edison, how did it feel to fail 999 times?” As the story goes, Thomas Edison just smiled and replied, “Young man, I have not failed 999 times. I have simply found 999 ways how not to create a light bulb."
Before they left on that day I asked them to write something for me so I can remember this story that she have just told me. The daughter asked can I write in Dutch and I said 'anything'. After she finished writing, curious what her daughter wrote, the mother came and checked :) and when she found that her daughter wrote in Dutch she shook her head and translate them for me. Another beautiful mother-daughter character relationships that just make me smiling. I'd have missed this had she chosen to write in English :)
