"You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself. Because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a desk of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all." I belong to that category of men who spend most of their lives reading, yet in this journey I hadn't almost been able to hold a book in my hands. Yesterday then, lying on my hostel bed while the rain outside was providing to make the green Switzerland even greener, I bumped into this beautiful thought of Meryl Berkham, a pioneer in civil aviation in the
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