You are going to hear a lot more about this ‘investment’ process I am in the middle of until it's done. It is all very different from how things are done in India obviously. The way I am used to things, I wouldn't mind paying extra pounds for somebody to just go away and do it and not tell me all about it or involve me in everything. I don't want to know the nitty-gritties—just tell me I can trust you and get it done! You know what I mean? I suppose I am a person who likes to be all in or all out. In things that I consider my area of interest, no detail is small enough. In things I am not an expert in, I just want the results. For instance, if I had to have heart surgery or something, I wouldn't want to know all the details of what's going to happen. I would only want to know the person doing it is the best at what he/she does and I can trust them. The less I know, the better, because if I know a little, it will cause me anxiety. Take my money and just get on with it. That's how I feel about this 'investment' process and that's how I would approach it in India... but not here clearly :(

On another tangent, I was talking to someone recently about how adversity really brings out the creative juices in you. As in, I don't think I could think deeply or feel deeply or reflect deeply if my life had been a bed of roses. In comfort, I don't see how anything could have grown inside me? I would have had no experiences to think out of or feel out of or write out of. Obviously, I wouldn't wish for suffering for that reason on myself or anyone else... but I don't see how I could have been who I am today without the trials by fire I have been through. Anyway, the main point I was coming to is that this conversation reminded me of some beautiful lines that I had almost forgotten:

"Sweet are the uses of adversity,

Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,

Wears yet a precious jewel in his head"

—Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, Scene I