Annaka Harris

What is life?

What is this place?

What are we doing?

How are we here?

How is this taking place?

But, I mean, if I had to answer, I guess I don't think there is a why, really.

It's funny, the quote, the thought that comes to mind is really like a kind of a cheesy quote that I'm sure is printed on a bunch of mugs and t-shirts, but it's Thich Nhat Hanh.

I'm going to get it wrong, but it's something like, we're here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

And I don't really see that as an answer to the why question, although that's how it's framed in his quote.

We are here for that purpose.

I think if there is a purpose worth being here for, that's kind of the ultimate, I think.

I haven't really had this conversation with my kids.

I mean, we have lots of deep conversations and they're all kind of pertaining to each moment or whatever they're facing.

I think career is difficult because in so many ways, I just feel like I'm lucky that I ended up being able to do for a living the thing I love to do.

But the truth is- There's no such thing as luck.

Yeah, well.

There's no such thing as luck when you believe in free will, right?

They're all illusions.

I really, in retrospect, started working on my book 30 years ago and had no idea that I was working on a book.

And this kind of ties into my advice, which is I think it's really important to