... it's hard to be politically conscious and upwardly mobile at the same time.
Just think: your family are the people most likely to give you the flu.
I am sick of being the victim of trends I reflect but don't even understand.
A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
It's not that I lack ambition. I am ambitious in the sense that I want to be more than I am now. But if I were truly ambitious, I think I'd already be more than I am now.
Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic.