The one difference I have noted is that it's made me more tender to my students and to young people particularly. It's made me mellower. I began to have a different perspective, because I may not be around much longer to be hassled by life's pressures.
Shirley Geok-lin LimIn short, for me - I'm kind of projecting onto you - distraction has become a modus vivendi, a way of life. Rather than complaining, I am recognizing that I couldn't do what I wanted to do because I'm distracted.
Shirley Geok-lin LimIn some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim