Does the tree waste its life if it stands still and feels the sun? Do the newts waste their lives sleeping under the leaves? Your purpose is to be, and you are excelling.
being alive means being embarrassed and making mistakes often and being simultaneously restless and sluggish and being surprised by glimmers of hope on random weekdays and forgetting things, remembering them, and falling in love again and again and again
These are elementary school children who woke up this morning. Who ate their favorite cereal. Who tied their shoes in double knots. Who laughed with friends on the bus. Now more than a dozen are dead. This isn’t normal. It doesn’t have to be this way. It can’t keep being this way