Characters

Humans can be at once both deeply complex and deceptively simple beings. I am a keen observer of not only others but of my own behaviour. 

Some people seem to be themselves more readily than others with the risk that their frankness spills over into the blunt and distasteful. 

Conversely, some are so steeped in affectation that they give off an inauthentic air. 

After dealing with so many people over the years, I learned to recognize patterns and could sometimes even see hints of the wounded child we all have underneath. 

For example, the person who constantly dabbles in one upmanship gives away that they are insecure and perhaps weren't listened to as a child. 

The hardest thing about my career wasn't the work itself but instead dealing with the cast of characters and their psychologies as well as my own.

  Coffee house which used to be bank in 1910