There are a lot of people around the world, eastern or western, want to live at 'present'.
When a person lives at 'present', he forgets everything, including who he is, his wealth, his worries, his happiness, his pains ... and he does not think about his future too.
It is a state of Ecstasy. It happens when a person lets go of everything.
In fact, a lot of people have experiences of living at 'present'. It happens when a person fully focuses and fully dedicated to doing what he likes to do.
In such a state, he totally forgets who he is.
There are many ways to achieve the goal of living at 'present'.
Some people, in order to live at 'present', will take part in some adventurous and maybe dangerous activites. When they are taking part in those adventurous activities, they have to be 100% focused.
If they have a moment of unfocused, they may find themselves in accidents and could even cost their lives.
Everyone should explore their own ways of living at 'present'.
There are different customs in different parts of the world. We usually get used to the customs of the place we live in.
However, different places have different customs. Sometimes, they can be opposite.
Before I travelled to India for my first business trip, my former boss told me that I could get sick the moment I stepped out of the plane and breathed in the local air.
Properly you can imagine how tough it could be travelling in India.
My boss did not say anything about Indian customs even though he had travelled to India many times.
We met a local potential partner at the hotel one day. I had to introduce our solutions to the potential local partner.
When I did the presentation, the young Indian man shaked his head from time to time. I was very surprised.
I thought even if you did not like our solutions, you did not have to let me know immediately.
When I looked at his facial expression, he did not seem like he did not like our solutions. So, I did not ask him why he shaked his head.
When I had dinner when my boss afterwards, I told him the young Indian shaked his head from time to time when I did the presentation.
My boss said when Indians shaked their heads, they meant they agreed with you. It meant the same when we nodded our heads.
A lot of people have their English names in Hong Kong. In most of the cases, we can tell from the English name whether a person is male or female.
If you saw 'Sharon' in Hong Kong, you would most likely think it was a female. Sharon Stone, a famous actress form Hollywood, is well known in Hong Kong.
However, 'Sharon' is a man's name. There was a former male Israeli prime minister called Sharon. I also used to have a colleague called Sharon.