Suit yourself

When you are a child you are encouraged to talk about what you want to be when you grow up. I don’t remember really wanting to be anything when I was a kid, and now I am most certainly grown up in the physiological sense of the expression I am sure that I really don’t want to do anything at all, in a professional way. What is more, I’m equally sure that anyone who really does want to be someone or something is mad and should be locked up to protect the rest of us. Careers and professional ladder-climbing are just rather sophisticated ways to distract us from the simple, shocking truth that not much, really, is that important, and what matters most, in fact, is the love we feel for others.