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Coincidence Led Me Here
The smallest things can change the direction of your entire life
T — 10 years
When I try to tell you how our story together started, I would have to go back in time to a tiny bedroom, where the 17-year-old me lay on the top of a bunk bed and read a book. That wasn’t an unusual sight. I was always reading books.
I thoughtfully flipped through the yellowed pages. Isaac Asimov’s robotic series was my favorite. I just finished one of the books and a few sentences from the afterword caught my attention. Asimov mentioned that it surprised him how much people seem to love R. Daneel Olivaw, a humanoid robot that had the intelligence to solve crimes, but no emotions. He compared him to the character Spock from Star Trek: The Original Series. And as I enjoyed R. Daniel Olivaw too, I thought I should probably check out this Spock.
I was familiar with Star Trek. When I was a kid, The Next Generation was airing on Czech TV, but I knew nothing about TOS. But, by a complete coincidence, it was just airing on TV when I finished this book. I decided to give it a go.
I watched one episode — it was one of the crazy ones where all the crew is infected with something that makes them super-emotional — and despite that, I was intrigued. I watched the next episode, and the…
