Sleeping is for Quitters

I've been thinking a lot about what it takes to find happiness in life. I think that more than anything, you need courage. It takes courage to recognize that your choices have backed you into a cage, and even more courage to tear down those bars and start all over again. It takes courage to make choices not out of expediency, practicality, or perceived necessity but from an unflinching assessment of your own desires. You can't shy away from difficult choices, because happiness is a difficult thing in and of itself.

Life is difficult right now, and will be for several years. The economy will not recover quickly, and once remade, it will be completely unrecognizable from the economy of the 90's. I know I sound pessimistic, maybe even depressed, but I promise that I'm not. I've started to change my perspective - to see opportunities where adversity and drudgery once loomed.