A random yet heart-warming story about pursuing something you love to the logical even if somewhat zany end. It reminded me of a story I had read in the newspaper as a kid. The author had this hobby of writing down snippets of conversation she heard in public spaces - bus stops, train stations, the marketplace and so on.
She always carried a notebook and wrote down things she heard that piqued her interest. Some of these sound-bites might even start mid-sentence but that was part of the allure of this particular hobby. At the time of writing this article she had many such hand-written notebooks created over the years and she was toying with the idea of turning it into a book.
The idea remained with me ever since I read this article. In India, it is not hard to catch great morsels of conversation when you are out and about so just tuning in to what strangers were talking about opened the floodgates of interesting tidbits. I could see how maintaining a log of this random wit and wisdom could one day lead to a book. I never took the idea to its logical and zany end like the author that story in the newspaper but she certainly opened my ears to something wonderful that I had never paid attention to before.
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