The day started out with a plan. I would take care of a list of items that day and I got sidetracked again. That’s when it happened. Casey Neistat kidnapped me.

Okay, he didn’t literally kidnap me. I had noticed a YouTube video he had uploaded recently titled ‘super sad.’ and I wondered what Casey, who is always upbeat, could be so sad about. My restraint could not be controlled. My left button clicking finger developed a mind of its own and off we went viewing a super sad video.

It was indeed sad. A friend of Casey’s, Quentin-Kenihan, had passed away suddenly and Casey was using this video as a way of releasing his sadness and in an offhanded way paying tribute to the friend he would never see again. My eyes welled up as I watched Casey struggle through the memories and at the conclusion I too was sad for a man I had never met.

All the while there was a soundtrack playing beneath the video, one that seemed to seamlessly meld the images and sound into a complete experience. And at the conclusion I clicked the ‘thumbs up’ icon and scrolled down a bit to discover the source of the musical soundtrack. Of course I had to investigate, that’s me.

This lead me on a trip to discover who Quentin was. He was born in Australia in 1975 with a rare disease commonly referred to as ‘brittle bone disease’ and spent his whole life of 43 years in a wheelchair. An amazing man who broke bones over 570 times and appeared in ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ as Corpus Colossus. He was an advocate for those with disabilities and ran for Councillor for the City of Adelaide in Australia.

But that music. Casey as he always does left a link to the music in the description, and it was the only thing in the description this time: smarturl.it/CloZeeEvasion. Of course, off I went. This lead me to a musical artist named CloZee and I was able to view the full music video. There were two actors, dancers who performed throughout the video with a form of dance I hadn’t experienced before. There was mention in the description of Dutch Amenti Collective. What is that? Again, off I go to discover a small group in the Netherlands at amenticollective.com where I discovered who was behind the dance design.

This little detour absorbed nearly two hours of time and yet returned more than the planned list would have accomplished but in another way. Often I become so focused on ‘getting things done’ I don’t allow for the detours that present themselves as I go along my daily path. I have been finding if I remain open to potentials while still having a list of tasks, more actually gets done. Not on my timeline but the timeline of a universal nature. This poses an opportunity to question what many, many people refer to as Prayer.

Often we pray for something and we have a preconceived idea how it will appear. But along comes something with the exact solution to the request but we reject that solution because it didn’t arrive wrapped in the box we were expecting. You know how I know that? Because I’ve done it way too many times. But finally I have banged my head against the wall enough times that the concept some unknown universal mind had been attempting to convey finally was received and understood.

So once again half a day was ‘lost’ because of a detour, a tribute to a man I never knew hijacked my time. But I have to thank Casey Neistat. It was the best kidnapping I’ve ever experienced.