Of course, it is not an easy task to imagine oneself ten years into the future, considering the very many things that, between now and then, could influence my decisions and overall long-term ambitions. Until recently, I admit I had not put a great deal of thought into the ‘future’, in this context the ‘future’ commencing once my academic life, the one I am familiar with, ends, and my professional life begins. So ask me where and what I will be in ten years time, and I suppose I will not have a satisfactory answer, aside from the obvious ones, such as being comfortably wealthy and healthy, both in body and in mind. However, I have come to realize that to get somewhere in life, a predetermined path has to be planned out and then, t