That is what lives are, aren’t they? Attempts to fill our time with activity designed to prevent us from realizing that there is no meaning? - Maureen F. McHugh

So what's wrong with capitalism?"
He sighs. For a minute I wonder if maybe he's a capitalist. But then he says, "It's not a fair system."
"That's stupid," I say. "Things aren't fair. Only little kids expect things to be fair.

We enter into all major relationships with no real clue of where we are going: marriage, birth, friendship. We carry maps we believe are true: our parents’ relationship, what it says in the baby books, the landscape of our own childhood. These maps are approximate at best, dangerously misleading at worst.

It’s true that we are free to do whatever we want, even go to France on a whim. We can make any choice we want. We can do anything we want. We just have to not care about consequences.