“Strange isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. And when he isn’t around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?” – Clarence the Guardian Angel, It’s a Wonderful Life
In the years of our youth we are a lot like young George Bailey. To paraphrase the iconic character in the Frank Capra classic, we know what we want to do “today, and tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day after that.” Sometimes life gets in the way of those pursuits, which I suppose is the moral of the entire story, and the arc that makes up our own existence.