Intermezzo (and it’s a long one): I have changed this post in my head about 7 times already. I first set off with an idea on a writing spree, when I wrote Act II, this Intermezzo, Act III and an epilogue all in one sitting. But since putting this on paper (or, to be more precise, on a Google docs file), I read some other stuff and thought about some other stuff, and I am still not sure I am done with this post. Maybe this will be forever under construction, a forever conflict, in the same way I am realising that I might never be able to fully deal with the “monster” I created. Wait, a monster? Yes, but let me rewind a bit. I was going all the way back to the beginning of the original post I wrote, but I want to start someone else. I want to start on my back. A few days back, I had a bad case of sciatica. It’s something I’ve been experiencing recently and it’s almost at a point where it’s recurrent. This time, I spent a lot of time on the floor, so I decided to take a picture of it and ...