Michael’s Daily Reflection
Michael Ngo
Most details of a person's life are lost forever. Some details managed to be stored in memory, but memory fades.Most of us don’t know much about the generations before us. We barely know the details of our parents' lives, and maybe even less with grandparents. I bet that most people can’t recall the names of their great-grandparents.My father passed away when I was 9. I had enough memory to get a sense of who he was, but I didn’t have the chance to understand his outlook of life on a deeper level. How was he when he was younger? What things that he struggled with? What did he dream about?I didn’t realize this in the beginning, but Michael’s Daily Reflection is a vehicle to connect with my kids and future generations on a deeper level. I want to provide them what I didn’t have. It’s like having insurance for a piece of my “consciousness”. Each episode is intended to distill an insight that I learned, on a particular topic that I come across. I connect the dots between the things I e