“If adults also don’t live in a world designed for us. Climate, entropy, accident, crowds, happenstance, erosion, heartbreak—we are fools to think that we are in control of the universe. Children are right to allow the humility of their smallness to rule the day. My misery gives way to fun when you take an object, event, situation, or scenario that wasn’t designed for you, that isn’t invested in you, that isn’t concerned in the slightest for your experience of it, and then treat it as if it were.”