Dave Evans

It's just something was terribly missing.

And what have I done wrong?

I mean, she really thought she did it all right.

But her experience of it was not what I had in mind.

And I have no idea why.

She was really stuck.

I think very often what a lot of us, myself certainly included, have done is we have this goal in mind.

If I just get to there, all will be well.

I call it the all will be well system.

Once I am happily married with two kids and have my own business, all will be well.

Once I have an important job at an advanced energy technology company getting us off the oil problem, all will be well.

Once everybody knows how to use a mouse, all will be well.

And it turns out all isn't well.

I mean, there's not a different you waiting on the other side of that finish line.

There's not a different universe you're suddenly living in.

There's not a different psyche suddenly saying, oh, now I feel like I'm really being my true self.

None of those things are caused by hitting those objectives.

Yes, well, he was trying to make a living.

He studied sociology and minored in art history.

And he was a lovely guy with a nice liberal arts education.