Most of what we do we do because we enjoy the rules and the challenge of playing by the rules, not because we want to reach the goal. That goes for digging ditches to building corporate empires to writing or painting or anything else.
We talk about winning, keeping our eyes on the prize, etc, but it's more about perseverance than getting there.
How many people do we know that "made it" but are unfulfilled? They're always looking for a new challenge. "Arriving" is just a rest stop between goals.
Grownups play house and doctor and soldier just like kids do; we just don't realize we're pretending.
Life is theater from the moment your feet hit the floor in the morning.
The origin of this post was a series of conversations with WWII corpsman Jay Garvelink. He told me about a second lieutenant whose inexperience got a lot of people killed. This was called "playing soldier." I told the story here >
[2013-02-28]
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