Life is an interesting pastime. You pass through it too quickly, never bothering to smell the roses. You rush through it in perpetual rapidity, always planning ahead. You live today for tomorrow, working for a goal, which leads to another. Philosophical, ain't it? It's an observation. I don't really mind it - it stops you from being bored. That's right, I don't mind it, as long as it ain't me working. I'm just too lazy. Yet I am at a point in my life, where I am being forced to at least give a passing thought to my life ahead, to reconsider my dream of being a cricket umpire. Make that food critic. And so i reconsider... and I find that the greatest challenge in life is attaining the tools to face all of life's challenges.A paradox to consider...