A friendly exchange between a dentist friend who came back into my life yesterday after twenty years and me. He was away in the Middle East all these years.
Friend: So, what do you do nowadays?
I: Meditate.
Friend: Be serious.
I: Ok, I am a cruciverbalist.
Friend: What is that?
I: Please ask Google.
Friend: Be serious.
I: I solve crossword puzzles.
Friend: Meditating and solving crossword puzzles is not doing something. Those things just take a couple of hours every day.
I: What are you doing nowadays?
Friend: I have opened my clinic and established my practice.
I: So, how many hours do you actually attend to teeth?
Friend: May be two three hours every day.
I: So, you can be a dentist with three hours of what you do and I cannot be a cruciverbalist or a meditator when I spend three hours on the former and an hour and a half on the latter everyday?
Friend: Okay, let us change the subject.