Eating steak had never had this effect on me before, but this was my first time at 4 Gats – the quintessentially quirky Catalonian restaurant in Barcelona. Opened in 1897, it was renowned as the foremost meeting place of the artistic, eccentric, and supposed outsiders. I felt immediately at ease; no doubt I was sitting at Pablo Picasso’s favorite table. As I drank in the unique ambiance, a weird, yet profoundly wonderful, notion entered my head. A thought experiment – the hallmark of Albert Einstein – consumed my consciousness: what would I do if I saw my younger self at a nearby table? How bizarre would that be? And most irresistibly, would I approach, and if so, what would I say? What piece of advice was worthy of endowing to my youthful self, without overwhelming him? I finished my delicious meal without an answer.
This conundrum continued to play on my mind maddeningly without a conclusion. In order to buy more time, I decided to share my quandary with a group of friends who readily agreed to participate in this idiosyncratic idea. My challenge was: Sitting in the crowded Fantasy Bar, you see your younger self at a proximate table. Youthful you is oblivious to your presence as you ponder what to do. On the wall hangs Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of motion: “Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.”
Do you leave or walk over?
And if you choose the latter, what one piece of advice would you give yourself before departing?
My Newtonian notice was vital since I remained somewhat cautious of an approach – and the potential of irreversible change even though it excited me to do so. Restraint or recklessness? I had to delve deeper before making my final decision. Meanwhile, my buddies were far more boisterous.
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CAMBODIA: GENERATION HOPE.
American writer and Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck concluded,“People don’t take trips… trips take people.
A TIME TO DIE...
The venerable Aston Martin DBS makes a shock exit
CHEESE-BURGER & SALAD
The latest Vette has split personalities with a performance overlap
TARGET. DESTROYED.
AUDI’S R8 HITS ITS HEADY RED-LINE FOR THE LAST TIME
THE LAST MOTORSPORT FRONTIER THE DAKAR RALLY
“It’s absolutely f***ing wild… you train all year for it… you need to totally dedicate yourself to it; and that’s if you just want to finish.
THE ART OF BEING UNCOMFORTABLE WITH MATT BROMLEY
It’s a bright Monday morning at Long Beach in Kommetjie, a small coastal village located in Cape Town on the southern tip of South Africa.
ACTRESS BRINDA DIXIT'S SECRETS
ON HOW TO LAND YOURSELF A LEADING LADY!
BRO'MANCE! THE BEST CO-OP GAMES TO PLAY
Put away your single-player RPGs cause these eight co-op video games are perfect for jamming with your man!
THE SIX WORST GAMES-TO-MOVIE ADAPTATIONS EVER!
With the recent release of The Last of Us, the shackles of bad video game to live action adaptations has been firmly shattered, proving that in the right hands a great video game can become a great series or movie. However, this is a very rare case indeed, as numerous attempts to bring a video game to the screen have been attempted and most of them have failed spectacularly. Here are six of the worst offenders when it comes to bad video game adaptations.
SCREEN TIME WHAT TO WATCH THIS MONTH
Take a break, sit back, put your feet up and enjoy some of our latest entertainment choices to help you escape the everyday things! Come on, you know you want to!
