A life of obligation and no opportunity is crimped. A life of opportunity and no obligation is hollow. A life that fuses opportunity and obligation is true.**
Daniel Pink

Some people as they grow up become less … Other people as they grow up become more.^
Eugene Peterson

Opportunity creates obligation, and
obligation stimulates opportunity;^^
These we welcome so that we may continue
becoming more no matter our age.

*Number 66 – officially a pensioner;
**Daniel Pink’s The Power of Regret;
^Eugene Peterson’s Run With the Horses;
^^These are two more guises for the dynamic and static goals we need in life, as Christian Schwartz identified them, and as identified by Mihaly Csikszenmihalyi as exploration and home.