Regardless of where we lie on our respective timelines, the choice is the same: you can howl at the moon over the years that have come and gone, you can be a tomato and shrivel up and die, or you can move on, buoyed by the knowledge that your best work lives on without you, and there’s still so much more to do.
From “The Ripeness and the Rot” by Michael Ames in issue 2 of Lucky Peach