Morning thoughts through a looking-glass (darkly)

People become what they focus on. This is why, while it may be useful to know what you are fighting against, it is urgent and necessary to know what you are fighting for.

People who are going toward someplace, get there. The way may seem long and arduous, but they carry their destination with them.

People who are trying to escape someplace, find, like Alice, that all roads lead to that same place and they always wind up walking through the same door. Sometimes, unlike Alice, they no longer recognize the place, only knowing that they still feel the same need to escape. They too carry their destination with them.

I need to figure out what it is I'm fighting for. Otherwise I run the risk of turning into a stressed-out bureaucrat, and nobody wants that.

Now, HERE, you see, it takes all the running YOU can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!