No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.