Spend enough time around Tajwar and you will learn that Rumi once wrote, "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." You will learn that there is a spot in Malam Jabba where the Himalayan range reveals itself amongst the clouds, and that standing there in silence is its own kind of prayer.
You will learn that Angus Donald wrote eight books to explore a single, stubborn idea: that believing in something hard enough can bend the shape of things. You will learn that the finest Indomie noodles require little more than chili sauce and chicken stock, and that this is not up for debate.
You will learn that I prefer the long way home. Not for the scenery, though that helps, but because the detour is where the conversation deepens. It is where philosophies get untangled, where a way of looking at something shifts without either person noticing, and where someone eventually says, "I never thought of it that way before."
You will learn how to transplant a plant without breaking its spirit, and how to call a bluff in a card game without breaking eye contact. You will learn the particular geometry of a foosball table, how to attack with the keeper and defend with the strikers.
You will learn where to find the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper on a clear night, and that Orion is very near to them. You will learn how to write Python scripts that can catch financial frauds.
You will learn that I carry a designer's eye. It also shows up in the way I pass through a street, I cannot help but notice the architecture of buildings I pass, the lines and proportions, the choices someone made and why and in the blueprints I draw of houses I might one day build, and in the hours I spend on Canva as an outlet for creativity.
You will learn that I love to capture beauty in words and in pictures, though there are very few of my own in either form. I am better at noticing than at keeping. But the noticing itself has become a kind of record.
And somewhere along the way, you will learn that I graduated in accounting and finance, and that I now spend my days in technology, a path that surprises people, though it is one of the stepping stones in my journey forward.
There is more. But this is enough to begin.
