NEXT TO NORMAL
For the past few months, we have grappled, wrestled, and struggled with the concept of what normal has become for all of us. While many continue to look at once was, hopelessly wishing things would just go back to how we understood it to be, the rest have been working on carving out the path we all would move forward in, redefining what it is to live with this aggressive shift in our histories hovering over us for the rest of life itself. Everything has been shaken up, undone, and turned on its head, and now we are making better choices—whatever, wherever it may be.
MEGA Man still means business and is taking its chances, charging ahead in an approach that is conscious and considerate. This month, we meet Ben Wintle, the man who is a proponent of Booky, the leading lifestyle app where you discover restaurants and local services in the Philippines. On a quiet Saturday afternoon, as most days are as of late, he walks in ever so casually to the showroom of Opulence Design Concept, a space that houses eye-popping decorative house pieces, as well as of furniture and kitchen innovations. Quiet and confident, Ben Wintle got to work immediately, getting groomed and dressed in a range of looks that best illustrate the business casual hybrid.
Make no mistake about it, this wasn’t all a still and serious setting. There was a heavy pour of rain, there was music, and there was a lot of talk of Prince, as in the artist formerly known as. Above all, it was efficient and characteristically, cool, calm, and collected, where we were able to get things done. Perhaps there is no such thing as a definitive normal from here on out, just personal affectations and allegiances that make it work for you.