Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, Thoreau said. Later, he added that most men lead lives of quiet desperation, indicating that few, if any of us, were taking his advice. Fuck him, he had a trust fund. Who the hell else but a rich man could afford to spend a summer sitting by a lake thinking about life? I’ll take the next thing that comes along and stick with it, because the looking, the hope that something better is out there, drains you of more energy than the drudgery itself.
