To see and experience as much and to capture them in words

I met with an old friend the last Sunday (Sunday afternoon drinks are fun), as we were talking about life and the struggles that comes with growing old and gaining responsibilities a question of him struck me. This was actually not the first time that the question overwhelmed me. I remembered in my company’s first team building, my general manager asked me sort of the same question as we were having a one on one discussion. The question, at least the latest one was formed in such a satisfying manner, I hope my memory is not betraying me, “how do you handle life?” I thought he must be asking me for advice and I thought that I must be hitting a few notes correctly. I struggled to answer the question, like the first time it was asked to me. And like the first time, I answered it, "I read…" But as the moments pass and I reflect on the question, with the kind of itch you have when you and your friends are talking about a movie character whom you know, you know,( an...