Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders. - Scott Jurek

We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward.

We move forward, but we must stay in the present.

The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.