> The sur­prise of middle age, and the ter­ror of it, is how much of a per­son’s fate can boil down to one mis­judge­ment. I don't think that's it. The misjudg

> The sur­prise of middle age, and the ter­ror of it, is how much of a per­son’s fate can boil down to one mis­judge­ment. I don't think that's it. The misjudgment is invariably going to be just a sample in a pattern of similar such misjudgments.