"But no one lives the life they want. No one lives the best, most interesting life they can. And the tiny shred of human beings who live in these permanently ro

"But no one lives the life they want. No one lives the best, most interesting life they can. And the tiny shred of human beings who live in these permanently romantic states are all people who got immensely lucky in some way, usually including being born into wealth. I’m not trying to be a dick, here, and I of course believe in transcendent experience. But transcendent experience is usually unplanned and always fleeting. You’ve got to remember that after even the most radical, romantic, and satisfying change you make, your life will eventually just go back to being ordinary life, your life, the mundane life of perpetual boredom and mild disappointment that most successful people lead." If I tried to come up with my own teleological point to life, I foresee matching the author's despair. As did Qoheleth: "Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?" (Eccl7:13)