It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.
Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.
My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.
Predict the inevitable", she said, "and you're bound to be right one day.
Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.
He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.