The thing is, I also know that I’m happy. I rolled the dice on a bunch of dreams, and I’ll roll the dice on a bunch more. The hard part isn’t trying to make it, it’s reaching acceptance, and being happy with wherever I am.I’ve always struggled with acceptance, with being able to just look at things the way they are, and be okay with it.

Unfortunately, it’s an almost essential skill.We don’t have to accept everything in the world — but we do have to be able to accept when we fail, or accept when success doesn’t look the way we thought it would.

I worry sometimes that we’ve put too much weight on success. That we’ve sacrificed everything else to make success our religion and our creed, as though that’s where we can measure a life.

That’s where we get this idea that we’ve got to hack everything, or we’ve got to do everything. That’s where we get the incredibly misguided idea that people who are successful in one area must be experts in all others. We listen Jim Carey talk about vaccination like a few hit movies make him a medical expert.