In No Country for Old Men, Moss gives a hitchhiking runaway this advice:
It's not about knowing where you are. It's about thinking you got there without taking anything with you. Your notions about starting over. Or anybody's. You don't start over. That's what it's about. Ever step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.
Every step you take is forever. So many people are paralysed by that thought. What if we make the wrong decision, take a wrong step? Or, we think things are so bad that if we can't get another start, we'd rather be dead.
But for some reason, it galvanises me to action: is this my forever? Lord no. Is what I have what I want as the sum total of what I can't make go away? No.
Time to make plans.
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