from the "notes to myself"

If I had only...
forgotten future greatness
and looked at the green things and the buildings
and reached out to those around me
and smelled the air
and ignored the forms and the self-styled obligations
and heard the rain on the roof
and put my arms around my wife
... and it's not too late

p/s - Almost done with the book. I'm inspired to write something like that as a monumental journey the whole human race has embarked upon.