This Is How I Learnt to Smile
It was a cold rainy day in Brooklyn yesterday and I was seated in a crowded Shake Shack enjoying my vanilla milkshake when a family of three occupied a nearby table.
It was a cold rainy day in Brooklyn yesterday and I was seated in a crowded Shake Shack enjoying my vanilla milkshake when a family of three occupied a nearby table.
Spending 14 hours on a flight squeezed up next to two humans is always a revealing experience. It’s just enough time to get a sense of who they are especially going by how they treat each other.
When a friend mentioned that people today have a consumerist approach to relationships, I paused. After all, what occupied my mind had finally reached my heart.
This is love. Simple. Unadorned. Wholesome. Untiring.
Our ability to add intelligence to anything and everything we desire will be the defining trait of our generation and set the stage for the next technological and social revolution.