“Part of the problem,” Tavi said, “is talking about big decisions as changing your life in one way, permanently and finally, even though life keeps going and things change again.”
#211: The purity vortex
Our endings, we must discover, are often brought about by the very acts and words that we believed would keep things the way they have always been.
William Bridges • Transitions (40th Anniversary Edition): Making Sense of Life's Changes
we can’t go back, Lance. Even God can’t go back, only onward. That is the adventure.”
Lev Grossman • The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
But we will, of course, never arrive. There is no true destination and there is definitely no end point. All there is is the journey—an idea which, though it has its tragic dimension, liberates us to make more of the true valuable increments of life: moments.