Eddie Pinero

The one that is your life.

And I can't speak for every human being on the planet here, but I most certainly can speak for myself.

The easiest thing for me, the temptation I always find myself grappling with, is the temptation to stay where I am.

To accept things as they are, pass change off as something that's just a little bit out of my control.

That's what my lizard brain always seems to want.

It's really nice to not have to feel the burden of knowing I can change things around me.

That prospect of creating my own friction, my own chaos, so that I can, in a sense, tame it and elevate myself, that can be overwhelming, that's stressful.

But you know what it is at the end of the day?

It's thrilling.

It's meaningful.

And it may have taken me years to understand, but I'd trade a safe life for a meaningful one any day.

It was my coming to understand that statistically, we should not be here.

The odds are so small that you're alive listening to this, that the word improbability doesn't do it justice.

It's a miracle in every sense of the word.

And so, what do we do about that?

How do you explain a feeling?

How do you explain the cost of not going?

Of fewer sunrises?

Less laughter?

Untapped creativity?