Talk About It Anyway

In March—though it now feels like a year, because a lot has happened since then—I wrote a piece titled What Are You Talking About?, which was a reminiscence of the unexpected results of a random conversation. Today, after a very interesting day (as you will soon find out, interesting is my favorite word), I found myself thinking about how true that piece still is. There are a couple of mind-blowing experiences in the world (as I found myself asking a colleague today what some of their “damn this is great” experiences were, while I told them of my latest obsession with sushi). However, I always find it a bit exhilarating when something I’ve written about—publicly, privately—or mused on in my head starts showing up in real life. So, what happened today? To mark the end of my team’s day, we had dinner, and somehow I found myself talking about one of the items on my impossible board, which is to do a triathlon. It doesn’t matter that I don’t even know how to swim; I mean, I only learned…