Feb
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7th
When I was in college, I remember a specific meeting I had with my computer science advisor who was at that time Prof. Greg Morrisett, who now has a chaired professorship at Harvard. The guy is generally a badass and he looks like Ewan McGregor. He knew a little bit about my background, especially all the math I had done in high school. We talked a little bit about how I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. I remember he said something like, “a smart person like you are should try many different things.” I appreciated it not entirely as a compliment, nor for being a justification for bumming around, but sort of as an attempt to suggest to me that he (and his best friends) had felt that way before. Ya know, the way I felt then. That the only thing separating him from me was time. I think the demystification of life for me comes largely from that understanding.
And when you finally get there, or to the ultimate, seismic failure that God has laid out for you, you don’t want to look back and realize you wasted a lot of time worrying about not being good enough. Soooooo, strap up those boots! because time is still there to get through and gear up to enjoy all the unforeseen failure that can come along the way.
