We have a very unfortunate ability to make peace with our circumstances, to settle down wherever luck situates us. You do not find many people fundamentally dissatisfied with life. Superficially, everybody is dissatisfied; that’s not really the case. People lead very satisfied lives at very wrong places. There are very few who have genuine discontentment.

We settle down. We accept. We surrender. We compromise. There is no urge to move up or move on. There is no urge to break free and fly.

Just as it is a habit to settle down, it is a habit to never settle down, to keep disturbing the status quo, even if needlessly—to keep changing things sometimes for no reason at all.

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