There's a lesson in here somewhere...

While two friends and I were walking along a busy street in Bombay at rush hour, I pointed to the sky and said, "Look! That's such a pretty sunset".

One of them looked up as well and said, "Huh. Funny how little we bother to look up since we're so preoccupied trying to see where we're going".

Over the next few months, I tried hard to be philosophical about that moment and look up at the sky more often. The colours, the cloud formations, the sheer artistic brilliance of it is truly mesmerising.

I currently have nine pairs of shoes.

In the span of three months since I had this revelation, seven of them have had dog poop on the soles.