Life’s a joyride.

Sometimes it’s the feeling of flying down a dusty California road, wind in your hair, hair in your eyes, in a ‘78 powder-blue Mercedes that only turns off if you stall the transmission because there’s a problem with the ignition. Other times you’re speeding down a Tennessee highway, fat raindrops coming down so torrentially you can barely see out the windshield.

Life’s always like that, filled with little dichotomies of the same thing: joy. It’s with us in the wonder and in the sorrow. It’s, in my opinion, the key to a good life.

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