Lessons Asif taught me

1. Laughter is an inspired moment when for a few seconds we forget everything else. Much like what they say about the experience of having heroin, the kick is about the sense of release that comes from totally disconnecting from everything, including your own feelings. Its not the result of a feeling or emotion, its the lack of it.
2. A certain sense of calm can be attained by attempting to forget our constant looking back into the past and worrying about the future. There is no time, and the best we can do is to live completely in the now. (I don't completely agree with this lesson or maybe I don't completely understand but it seems to work for him)
3. The most important lesson of all: With everything that's happening now, the worlds getting fucked like the wife of a soldier who just got back from the war front. So we might as well stop worrying about getting promoted and our savings and take what we have and hit Amsterdam while we can.