This is going to sound like an odd arti­cle, as I have yet to write any­thing on this site remotely reflec­tive or con­tem­pla­tive. I don’t know why, actu­ally but that’s just how it’s turned out. In any case, I was talk­ing to Theresa on Sunday when the topic of my friend Norm moving to Japan. She com­mented on how she was jeal­ous of those who have “free lives” or those who can just “up and do it.” She also made the com­ment that not all of them suc­ceed, to which I responded with “those are the ones that lack the strength of char­ac­ter to see it out.”