Sometimes the right thing and the hard thing are the same thing. I read that on a tea bag.
Every year he draws a Life Awareness Chart. An actual, written annual reckoning of how he’s spent his time (work, family, friends, singing in bars, skin-diving with tiger sharks, whatever), annotated with notes about what needs to be cut out or improved. “I love it, and it’s fucking hard,” he says of his brutally honest self-evaluation. “Being conscious in life is hard. It’s easy to be unconscious, to be drunk and a lot of things. I want to be those things! But I’ve been cursed with the desire to get aware … Goddammit!” (x)