Status quo, it is said, is latin for the mess that we are in.

You’re always one decision away from a totally different life

Those words are some of the most freeing I know. They help keep the wanderlust that runs through the fibers of my being placated…sober. I live as lightly as I can for good reason. Mostly because I have no other choice.

Here’s something that might be obvious about me. Faced with stability and with sanity, with things as they are; and faced equally with the unknown and the curious, the passionate and the novel I never even need think. It’s all interlinked with The Rush, of course. That’s not to say I always pursue the novel at the expense of all else, that would be foolish… even for me.

Where was I? Ah, yeah. There’s another quote that comes to mind here, though it will itself be the kernel of a full piece, eventually:

Be ruthless for your own wellbeing

Life’s too short not to live to the max, I (more than) believe that. And not to forget that there’s always a third way. I am, as I’ve taken to saying, always thinking sideways.

Choose slow death? Or choose Life?

I choose Life. Are you with me?