Moment. Pick one moment during which you felt most alive this year. Describe it in vivid detail.<\/i><\/p>\n
In 2015<\/a>, it was the moments after my hat was “stolen” in Rio. In 2014<\/a>, it was a moment in a writing workshop that I had achieved greatness. In 2013<\/a>, it was talking to Yasar Usta in Istanbul. In 2012<\/a>, it was using the ocean as a “big toilet” while floating outside Palawan. In 2011<\/i>, it was my birthday moment. In 2010<\/a>, it was the success in Journey to the End to the Night.<\/p>\n There are moments that will stay with me this year. The launch party for Ice Cream Travel Guide<\/a>. The getting up on stage, not once, but twice, at huge conferences. The first day at a full-time job in four years. Watching my sister get married and giving a speech. And of course, the realization that the president wasn’t going to be who I thought it would be.<\/p>\n But the moment?<\/p>\n Perhaps it was in this moment:<\/p>\n\n