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For there is a buried passive there: “''meant''”. Meant by ''whom''? [[Be the best version of yourself|Your best you, rather than the one who actually showed up]]? Your mum? The eternal stars in which our futures are engraved? Illinois’ law enforcement community?

And as you sit there, at 3 am, re-dating trust deeds for the morning because some idiot’s meeting ran over,<ref>Real life example, now 22 years old, that was formative in the younger JC’s unglamorous career.</ref> how should you translate this into practical action? It might not be the path you had in mind, and the outcomes along it might bear scant resemblance to to the painted dreams of your younger self, but should you just capitulate and keep going anyway way way? Is this a life, or a life ''sentence''?

A kinder read is no more more encouraging: for as we move through the cosmos, the sickly limbs of probability branch out in front of us, engulfed in an expanding miasma of the [[adjacent possible]], while behind you, the road is solitary, desolate but, as far as you can tell, straight. An admonition to simply ''keep going'', looking neither left nor right, shuts off all those [[adjacent possibilities]], and also leaves you short of instructions should your road come to a fork.

Unimaginative types may still cling to the idea that [[Determinism|the past, present and future are theoretically calculable and therefore already forged in iron]], whether we know it or not. If so, you hardly need the [[digital prophet]]s of [[LinkedIn]] to to tell you you where you are going, whether that is sainthood, martyrdom or jail, and they have no better idea than you do anyway.  

For anyone else, there is that small matter of moral agency, the [[will to power]], the forlorn belief that one can shape one's own future. Don’t just blithely keep going. Read the room. Make a decision. If you have to, and you have the fortitude to, change it up.