reseting your life

suddenly I had around 20 absolutely surrealistic hours.  I was completely detached from the real world, I forgot about my worries, my life, my job, basically about everything.  It was one of those situation you just live outside your life. (now that I write about it, easily it could become a movie)

Monday between 21.3o and 22.oo hrs someone stole the handbag of my friend S. I was with her in a pub having a beer, no big crowds, quiet place, nice chat and when we were leaving, oops no bag.

No bag means my friend lost everything, Wallet, ID, Passport, credit cards, cell phone, house keys, absolutely everything. As she said in one of the few sentences she could articulate “I am nobody right now”. Just a blank person, no official name, no way to get in contact to the people she knows, no house to go and sleep, no money to buy anything, no transport card, just nothing.

One day after she has managed to get the keys of her apartment from the agency and even to change the lock and get new keys; she got money from the bank and asked for a new card; she got a new phone with the same number as before; and she managed to get a paper from the consulate to travel back to her country and redo the documents (this part sucks, having to travel back to get your documents it is absolutely nonsense). But basically she could reset her life (or at least put everything rolling) in one day.

Pretty amazing how you can restart from “the beginning” again, and quite scary that you could start it with any other name. Do you wanna change your life, you can reset yourself in a couple of days……

A funny point was that the first thing we did  after assuming that she had lost her bag was buying cigarettes. Then we went to the police. The officer was the more insensitive guy I’ve ever seen, S. was freaking out which is quite normal, and more even if that happens to you in a country that is not yours, and the officer only could articulate, OK, OK; I cannot do that, OK, OK; normally we don’t find anything.

When you are going through these situations you just basically fall into a different world, it doesn´t even make sense people going yo work in a Tuesday morning.

P.S. I know I have a lot of posts missing, parcel boundary definition missing, my latest trip to Cambridge and a lot of delayed issues from the office and the project.