One In A Million

Twelve years ago, I was at my first SfN meeting in Chicago. It was really a big thing. It was quite impressive to see millions of researchers and students from all the world, sharing scientific knowledge. One day, I was waiting for a coffee in a Starbucks, inside the McCormick Place, and then Eric Kandel came close to me and asked me if I knew where could he pick up the stuff of the annual meeting, and all. I couldn't believe it. Although for the wrong reasons, a Nobel Prize, talking to me, in my first meeting of SfN! What was the probability...? 

I was so naive and silly and romantic that I thought it was a signal for me to stop writing and desiring to be a writer, and to focus 24/7 on science.