The importance of people... connecting!
Recently events happened in my life which changed the way I think about a lot of things. New people arrive in your life and you learn to cherish them in all their diversity. Sometimes circumstances occur where you leave people behind but their impact stays with you forever. But during the challenges of recent months I've never been more sure how important people are to me. ( "Friends" by Marion Doss is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 ) That sounds bizarre, but I had always thought of myself as being inherently antisocial. As a mathematician I always reckoned that numbers were easy to deal with because they behave in predictable ways and don't argue back like people do. If an office party came up I would have other plans. If I was invited out for dinner I would suddenly and conveniently find myself double booked. Not because I didn't Iike going out but because I always felt like I didn't connect with others ...