Life is not a straight line; you will continually be changing while you prepare yourself at the same time. We need to remember the way real life works. You make plans, you have accidents; you move straight ahead, you take a detour; you screw up, you recover; you try hard, you get lucky; you carefully make a five-year plan, you succeed because you improvise. You keep on proposing and recomposing your life.
--Ellen Goodman
