Imagine a man sitting in a café in Medellín, Colombia. He’s wearing a Patagonia fleece that he thinks makes him look rugged but actually screams “I once watched a documentary about the Appalachian Trail.” His laptop glows with spreadsheets or TikTok, depending on the hour, and he&rs
It always happens the same way. You’re washing dishes or driving down the interstate or doing some aggressively mundane thing like organizing a sock drawer, and suddenly, it hits you like a brick to the face: They were into you. Not just friendly into you, but actually, definitely flirting with you. It’s as if the neurons in your brain had been trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube for years and finally twisted into the solution.
1. He wished he had been a better father to his daughter. He wished they had reconnected. His dementia prevented him from remembering they had reconnected years before and that she visited often.
I wish I could have made him aware that he had accomplished his last wish. But he died not really understanding that.