When I reflect on the chain of events that have led to where I am now, I realise that it’s hard for me not to recognise the value of my own input in determining my life trajectory

Bone-tired from nearly 12 hours of travel between Bozen in Italy and Graz in Austria, I took advantage of the extra bed in my hotel room to lie down and work so that the glare of my laptop didn’t disturb my sleeping six-month-old. He was a trooper who took four naps through the day and remained in good spirits throughout, smiling at other passengers, reacting to their gestures of ‘peekaboo‘ with laughter and delight, and looking with unfiltered curiosity at everything in the immediate vicinity of his being — the grooves at the bottom of the window, the texture of the table mat in the restaurant car, the feel o

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