I think one of my self-destructive vents is that I have this pole toward extraordinary and I have this fear of ordinary, which is kind of like the two paths that cleared any Ethiopia. And so you're digging, you can keep digging, but you're stealing soil from somewhere else. My biggest fear is that when I get to the period in which I have nothing left to plan for or build for or chase down that I will have this aching emptiness. Which makes the ordinary seem a lot more attractive.

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