Today's Exactly100: The Good Life

The lucky bastards are those who early in life know what they’ll set out to do, spending the better part of their lives doing it. “Just do it,” goes the Nike adage...and that's just what it means.

The drifters are the poor laggards who’d sniff around before leaping and agonize over what to do and where to go or what to bring along – or why do it at all. 

So we postpone the "good life" until we feel ready for it, or until we retire. As we prepare, we collect things, insurance, garbage. And heavy-laden, we can't get very far. /mdm