The Adventure of Unknown

I had a wise couple once tell me, just before I got married, write down all of your plans for the next 5 years, then 10 years, then 15 years. “After you have those lists written up,” the wise couple instructed, “Read them together. Then laugh and rip them to shreds because none of that is going to happen.”

It was the type of advice that was funny in its starkness, and I laughed at them and thought, You people are kind of crazy and My married life won’t be like that.What a couple of pranksters!...