Balance
Live in the uncertainties my dear. Invent little moments inside those maybes and grow there. Akif Kichloo Early in January, on what was then a normal day, driving to walk the dog in an open space, free to speak to whomever I chose and able to concentrate long enough to listen to a podcast, I picked up an extraordinary email offering me the opportunity to apply to attend a European cultural conference. The chance of my being chosen as one of the delegates was slim but, for me, the fact that I had been considered worthy of applying was huge. When, at the end of February, I learned that my application had been unsuccessful I was naturally disappointed but listening to the writer Olivia Laing being interviewed about a relationship breakup, I realised that when she talked of the promise of that relationship being something that was going to lift her into a different kind of life, this was exactly how I felt about the conference. I had dared to dream of being catapulted stra...