b.read.crumbs : Driving

Getting ahead in career, in life, in love has always been a struggle. They make aphorisms about it: Only the strong survive, it’s a dog eat dog world, victory belongs to the most persevering, quitters never win. We’ve been drilled in the importance of winning from our earliest days. Can’t never could. Striving is practically built into our DNA. I think I can, I think I can. We dare not allow ourselves the blasphemy of considering What if I just stop?

We old hippies retain a trace of t...