Many of us
have had moments in our lives where we sit down and wish that we could go back
in time and change some decisions that we made, etc. Yesterday, we changed our
luncheon venue for the 9-11 commemorative to a Persian restaurant in Belmont
named Shalizaar.
After we finished a delightful meal and
drinks, Elena focused on my decision to come to the Bay area 25 years ago. She
told me all the things that I did wrong and how I could have made things easier
for me. (My theory of life is that sometimes you have to "do things the
hard way," make sacrifices, and suffer pain to achieve a worthwhile goal.
The words from a Robert Frost poem apply here as follows:
"And I, I took the road less traveled
by..And that has made all the difference.")
I listened calmly. I didn't see a lot of
merit in what she said. Elena and I were 7000 miles apart. We were speaking
different languages. We were dealing with different cultures and ideologies. I
pointed out to her if I had changed one thing that I did, most likely, we would
have never met. How different both our lives would have been.
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