With the vacation season approaching fast, a battle to book the best time for holiday begins in most offices, especially if you want to plan a get-away at the same time as your partner and travel together. But when too many people share the same intention and timing preferences, you may not be so lucky.

This is not a scientific treatise about the features and movements of icebergs at poles of on our planet. Rather, I intent to trace is an analogy with our lives in order to simplify communication with my readers.

So, an iceberg … is an icy lump that moves along with the World ocean currents and winds; it juts out above the water surface by 10-15 per cent, at the same time hiding its remaining 85-90 percent below the surface.

This very description of the notion of an “iceberg” motivated me to draw an analogy between it and a human life.