Sum of Everything

It seems oddly serendipitous to begin the new year with a post titled "Beginnings", although this one has been in my drafts for an embarrassingly long time now. Much like most other posts, this post would also have looked very different had I written what I originally had in mind. However in the several intervening months between my last post and this one, life changing things have happened, the most significant one being that my sister officially moved to Korea to start her journey as an MBA student (and by the time this is posted, she has even completed a semester; so much for being regular with these posts). To say that my sister and I are close would be quite the understatement. Saying “ joined at the hip, reading each other's thoughts, and telepathically communicating even when not in each other's line of sight ” would be a more accurate description. So having her go from living 3 steps away across the dining room to 5,583 km spanning 7 time zones away is not ...