All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.
Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
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