People are often advised to live in the present. Or, in the words of my Czechoslovakian mentor Jara, “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift and that is why we call it the present.” It was easy for me to simply smile at these words, so cleverly strung together, and accept the superficial message on its surface. But this saying has taken on an entirely new significance for me. Many of my experiences have enabled me...