A rote performance at play. You’ve heard this question before. You give the same answer – pattern identified, performance performed.

It’s a Sunday night in Prague. Your family decides to watch Bohemians 1905, the local football team with a kangaroo mascot. A collection of 6,500 child and adult voices cheering together. A Sunday in Prague.

One is but a shell of themselves. One is in a unique state of illness. One is faced with a world where everything is an obstacle to or an asset to getting sleep.

Learning by proximity. Learning by doing. Learning by failing.

At a crossroad I looked up. And with my eyes still up, I took a step, then another, and another. Then when I looked down, I was right where I needed to be.