Hah, I got to eat at a swank restaurant tonight with some fellow accounting students and CPAs-to-be. I hadn't realized, but it was kind of a well-to-do restaurant, so hahahaha... My etiquette training came in handy.
What I love, though, is that I got to devour some dreams. I'm still becoming better and better at finding innocent ways to ask about a person's most cherished and burning ambitions. One wanted to be VP of human resources in a large corporation. Another wanted to start her own wedding service firm. Another wanted to simply establish a good life for herself after deciding against pursuing something in entertainment (same for another, who wanted to be a dancer but left it behind).
It's so interesting to get the pulse of others' "dreams", eh? I summarized mine as "love, experience and communicating experience, living a life of no regrets, and improving humanity", but conditions forbade further discussion. I'm thankful to be lucid and aware of my own humanity, and the beauty of pursuing vaulted dreams with wild energy. It's the only way to live.