Whatever it is you find yourself doing while procrastinating from the thing you are supposed to be doing is often the thing you should be doing.

But another part of my parents’ influence was the bohemian idea that real meaning lay with the most brightly alive people, those who were free to wreck themselves.

living a meaningful life requires intention, effort and consistency

In order to build, we need to dream, and to be able to dream we need to accept the risk that we may fail, that things may hurt, that life is not and cannot be fair. In those murky waters is where the magic lies, the spirit that has carried our civilization.