Utter Silence is Fragile

Most of us don’t want to be ordinary. We want to be special. We want to live bold, extraordinary lives punctuated by moments of passion, excitement, and adventure.

We want to fill our days with people, things, and activities that make us feel vibrant, and outsource the rest to someone else–someone paid to handle the mundane.

We want to take all the uncertainty that life entails–all the potential for loss and sadness and the truth of our mortality–and offset it with undeniable achievement.

We want to discover something, uncover something, build something, invent something, found something, prove something–be something. We want to be extraordinary. We want to be great–or at least moving in that direction.

We want our lives to matter.