Sure you could give up. You could settle. Most people do. I began thinking about how I was tired. Here I was, another day another task. It occurred to me that after spending so much time and energy on returning to such a place, and not being happy all the time about it, that maybe I was doing something wrong.

I must have divided by zero. At that point I had a small short circuit and a snack party that could turn out to be a life-changing event. I thought, “What if, instead of focusing all of my energies on my own goals (something I was growing weary of), I did a complete about-face and turned to focusing all of my energies on others? geezz... damn