How do we fill our 16 or so daily waking hours?

I’ve concluded that the goal is perhaps less important than the process. It’s as much about how we do it as what we do. Those of us who have acheived difficult goals can tell you that the day you get the check, or the patent, or wedding license or new car or big job is no different than any other day.
If you have put yourself through pain and suffering and emotional, spiritual or physical deprivations to get what you got, how can that thing not be at least partially the embodiment of those torments?

Edmund White wrote a book called “The Beautiful Room is Empty”. The title says it all!

I like to test my actions by applying the following principals. My idea of tremendous success is to achieve a couple of them:

Courage.

Fidelity.

Restraint.

Generosity.

Tolerance.

Forgiveness.

Integrity.

Gratitude.

I like to imagine what the departed would think of our actions. I believe that the dead would propose that we spend our lives having a good damn time.

No car, painting, building or computer program is going to hold my hand when I’m drawing my last breath. That much I know.

Thanks for elevating the discussion, Ryan. We count on you for that:)