A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
To try to be better is to be better.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.