Bedford Falls to Houston

we try to avoid the intimidating responsibility of having to decide what to do with our finite time by telling ourselves that we don’t get to choose at all – that we must get married, or remain in a soul-destroying job, or anything else, simply because it’s the done thing.

What happens when the life you end up living doesn’t look like the one you planned?

And then what? It would have been a different life, one that I will never be able to imagine.

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.