It’s amazing what we gain just by losing something. When Dr Hosea Kili, the group managing director and CEO of County Pension Fund (CPF), lost his left eye, he gained certain perspectives—inclusion, empathy, kindness. Yet, in all this, a larger sadness is at play, the sadness of attachment and loss, and the way the world wreaks its changes, whether we’re ready for them or not.
Dr Kili is easy-going, affable, a man who has come to accept his lot in life. Life to him is a road with so many signs. Ask people who have derailed their lives when and why it happened, and each will give a different answer. But when you get down to it, people erred because they didn’t read the signs. Or they did, but they thought they knew better. To put it another way, the willfully blind.
