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Even if you win the rat race, you’re still a rat

To have a story, characters have to be placed into situations where they have to make choices, and those choices have to have consequences for both the character and the story. In other words: things have to happen.

There comes a time when visiting places has less to do with touring space and everything to do with touring selves.

It’s a big thing to love a single person well for a long time.

And my birthday gift to myself is the certainty that I have what it takes to start over if I need to.

but what if my investment is an experiment, a question to which I don’t yet want the answer? What if I trust that ideas come on their own time?

To quote Gil Fronsdal from a recent Dharma talk, “The path itself seems so precious; getting to the capital seems secondary.”

Success is not guaranteed, but it beats sitting on the sidelines, waiting for certainty that will never come.