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Life, Time and Choice

How we look back on the lives we have lived, and how we carry on living them: birthdays and regrets, the choices made at twenty, the people left at the counter, and the voice that keeps talking inside us.

  1. It's My Birthday, Then...Would I regret it if I died? A birthday meditation on time, regret, and the stubborn pleasure of being alive.18 min read
  2. Finding PeaceThe reconciliation between the life we imagined, the choices we actually made, and the person we eventually became.22 min read
  3. The Apartment Near the SeaFive strangers, different ways of life, and a friendship that lasted beyond the years they shared a home.6 min read
  4. The Fourth Person at the CounterThe man drinks, the bartender pours, the state takes its share—and the family pays without being there.10 min read
  5. Who Is Speaking When I Talk to Myself?The inner voice can be a narrator, a judge, a helper, a shadow, or a companion. But which of them is really us?9 min read
To go further · the bookThe ReturnersWe think of travel as an ancient human instinct. It is not. Travel is an invention — and everything a civilization is made of arrived because someone came

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