A friend shared the story of the Choluteca bridge in the Honduras. As they went about building the bridge in the 1990s, they enlisted Japanese architects to build a state-of-the-art hurricane resistant bridge.
It was a wonderful work of engineering.
Until the next major hurricane which altered the course of the river underneath it.
Alas, the bridge had to be abandoned. All those years of effort were wasted on a bridge to nowhere.
This friend shared that her reflection from the story was about the bridges she was building in her career. She intended to reflect on whether she was simply making “good bridges” that were bridges to nowhere.
It is definitely a question worth pondering.
Another one is about the adaptability of the bridges we’re building. Change, after all, is inevitable.
