Sometimes, I like to imagine the perfect reader - the reader who not just understands what I am about, but soaks up every word as if it were written for them. I have been fortunate in that I have got to meet such readers now and again.
There have been many articles about the top regrets that people have when they're dying. They are always, "I missed the ordinary moments. " We miss those ordinary moments, and yet, that's what we're trying to distract ourselves from at the same time.