When did you give up and decide you had enough?
In the last five years of your life what have you done?1
This is the question that comes to mind everyday about so many people I meet. Perhaps the feeling of worry about the aimlessness of so many lives is so strong because there was a sense in which I gave up for many years.
- Boy Sets Fire : The Misery Index – Notes From The Plague Years : Social Register Fanclub↩