Em and the Big Hoom

by Jerry Pinto

‘It’s knowledge, knowledge is good, it will help, knowledge always helps,’

Conversations with Em could be like wandering in a town you had never seen before, where every path you took might change course midway and take you with it. You had to keep finding your way back to the main street in order to get anywhere.

have discovered since that such effortlessness is not easy to achieve and its weightlessness is in direct proportion to the effort put in.

‘Do what your heart tells you. It doesn’t matter if you make a mistake. The only things we regret are the things we did not do.’

Love is a hollow word which seems at home in song lyrics and greeting cards, until you fall in love and discover its disconcerting power.

‘If you want to get people to talk to you, you should never interrupt.’

‘If anyone ever does you a favour, you cannot forget it. You must always credit them, especially in public, especially to those they love and those who love them. You must pay your debts, even those that you can never fully repay. Anything less makes you less.’

Victories evanesce quickly enough. Failure hangs around you like a cloak and everyone is kind and pretends not to see it.