Everyone has his or her own experiences. You learn as you experience and age and jot them down for your own clarity. If it helps some one in this process it is definitely worth it. Frankly I would not have put them together if not for a colleague who asked if I had any suggestions. Caution: What ever I write is purely what I feel or think, I might or might not practice it, so please use caution in assimilating the comments and|or suggestions! I am, I know, for sure, not an ideal person. This read was the first time I spoke about something similar. And this write-up is definitely influenced by it. You can multiply what I write by a necessary attenuation factor so that it becomes less ideal and more practical. My [a-z] disjoint pieces, no sequence or order [a] Thought people talk of work life balance, I think there is no way one can maintain it in reality, so if things are moving forward in both work and home, just go with it. [b] Happiness is (in my opinion) what one should striv