Talk is cheap. Action matters. A dream without efforts and action is just wishful thinking.
Waiting for the perfect conditions before starting something is like waiting for Godot.
Ask any successful entrepreneur or any artist and he / she will probably tell you that taking the first step is probably the most difficult. Fear, doubt, and vacillation can stop a project in its track.
For years, Hai knew he would write a psycho-spiritual adventure thriller like Into the Unknown. He knew way back from university days that one day he would do something like this and if he didn’t, he would regret it.
The overriding question then was: When?
Two decades later, he finally figured it out: an adventure story of two individuals thrust by forces beyond their control into an unfamiliar realm—a landscape of caravans and smuggling, of unchecked artisanal mining, geopolitical intrigue, greed, and prejudice that test their character and endurance to the maximum while simultaneously expanding their mental and spiritual horizons.