CHAPTER 2:Escaping Through Dream Ventures He’s already known about his sickness for a week. He prefers not to think about it. He quit his unbearably boring, soul-destroying job in the bank. He occasionally takes his medication, in an almost non-existent routine, a handful of antacid and painkilling pills with complex names. His family pressured him to stay with them and try special chemotherapy abroad. He refused. He could neither spend the last moments of his life in the hospitals he hates so much, nor with his family members offering him only a mish-mash of mourning and after-fight emotional discharges. He loves them but knows that he has to stay far away. Now that he still has time left, he should try out the constraints he has remaining. But he can’t; he doesn’t have the will to do