If you notice the true limits to your energy and time, you will be heartbroken.

It's part of being a person.

It's part of mature adulthood.

Not for all the things that you vaguely desire, but for the things you actively desire that aren't possible.

There is a lot of pain in realizing the lines drawn between this reality and what can be contained inside one human life with the modest altars of meaning we can construct each day.

Possibility can drive us to try, but I can't live in two countries at once. It's not going to happen.

It's hard and I'm going to say it: there are differences we can't reconcile and will never reconcile.

There are desires we have that don't live in the same body, lifetime, or cultural context.

A precondition for a life well lived is to avoid the things that simply aren't possible because you are here, now.