Half of us want to live the unexamined life, assimilating easily into the culture, the conventions and the perks of the time. And half don’t. We want to write our own marching orders, to look and ponder, to surmise and re-evaluate.
It’s not so easy, though, to be an original, to create a life of your own design, to parse, weight and scale where and how you can best contribute. Whether you’ve always had in mind this intention—and even see it as an obligation or, startled, realized that too much of your life “just happened,” there’s much to think about, plan for and do. (more…)