The conversation

Had a conversation with Ian Hutchison tonight.

After reading Rationing by Mary JapneseLastName Waters, I really got the sense why Mark and I get along so well.

Not because we are intelligent in the same way. Frankly, judging solely by academic achievement (which is the criteria of intelligence by most people), I believe that I am more intelligent than Mark (not meant to be a knock on him) there's no doubt that I am ahead of him by significant horse lengths. But we are similiar in how we are not intelligent. We are similiar because we are not smart in the same way: neither of us are smart enough to ignore our similiar shortcomings and are bounded by these shortcoming by the same way.

Both of us are extremely aware of why we are in a similiar career dilemma together. I can't even say why at this point, but both of us are after the same lofty goal of happiness without having any clues of how to achieve it, and both of us are doggedly after ways to achieve it in one single shot. We are not ready to set intermediate goals which MIGHT lead us in the right directoin. We want to achieve it and take the right step to achieve it righ tNOW.

The conversation with MArk's dad really put things into the right perspective. I have this strong feeling, more than a strong feeling, that dad would've said the same thing, had we been able to communicate on the same level in the same language. There's something uncanny about our similarities. abour our family background, about our family relationships, about how these family relationships are carried out. I am just super glad that, gasp, I migh thave found a front runner for soulmate right here.