I was going to give myself the day off but the ‘another year older and what exactly have you done with your life?’ monkey jumped on my back. As I rehashed the early years, the bad years, the good ones . . . the recent bad ones, a quotation came to mind. I couldn’t quite remember the whole thing, but – thank God for google! – I found it.
. . . Years ago, when I was nearing the end of a painful divorce, I got away to Mexico for a week to stay with a friend of my mother. Unfortunately, our paths crossed at 30,000 feet as she had received news of the sudden death of her brother and was flying to New York while I was on my way to Oaxaca. She left another house guest to pick me up at the airport and show me around, a man about my age who had just become engaged to be married – for the first time. To make short and poignant story merely short, let’s say that we hit it off. The quotation comes from Michael Ventura, from a magazine article we read and then talked about until it was time for him to leave for the airport.
Here it is. Thank you, Randy, wherever you are.
We know now that our dreams are not going to come true. Are never going to come true. We have learned that our dreams are important not because they come true, but because they take you places you would never have otherwise gone, and teach you what you never guessed was there to learn.
