Each time he came back with a big smile on his face. Where did you learn to live like that? the professor asked. Oh Ralph said, during the war, I guess. Then he told the professor about his last tour of duty, how it was his job to detect mines, and how he watched his friends blown up before his eyes, one after another. I learned to live between steps, he said. I never knew whether the next step would be my last, so I learned to get everything I could out of the moment between when I picked up my foot and put it down again. Every step I took was a whole new world, and I guess i`ve been living that way ever since.
