The Washington Post framed the culmination as a “real life drama,” telling the tale of how their love had been readily apparent for months, and “any … - Anne Helen Petersen

You are what you eat, read, watch, and wear, but it doesn’t end there. You’re also the gym you belong to, the filters you use to post vacation photos, where you go on that vacation. It’s not enough to listen to NPR, read the latest nonfiction National Book Award winner, or run a half marathon.

We tried to work harder, and better, more efficiently, with more credentials, to achieve it. And everyone, including our parents, seemed to agree on the first and most necessary stop on that journey: college, the best one possible, no matter the cost.

The difference, then, is that those servants made it so that they didn’t have to work — not so that they could work more.