Khadija and his wife both always jokes with Bashir that he is now in the prime of his life. But he feels that the weight of years stripping away from the frivolous parts of his personality to adding extra responsibilities and a new way of looking at the world that he could'nt have anticipated or even fathomed in his twenties or his thirties. Along with the decades have come a new realization that the spiritual world is calling to him, urging him to give God a place in his life much as he had given a place to his wife, his favorite music and the newspapers he enjoyed on his tea breaks in the hospital.