It can be tempting to live your life as a prelude, as a prequel, to think that you're setting up a grander narrative, that your path would soon follow Once I lose weight, I'm become fit. Once I graduate from university, find a real job for me. Fancy car, fancy house. Once I find the perfect romantic partner, once, once, once, then and only then will I begin to live. And every prior action leading up to that critical junction is a faint reflection of living, a halflived life. A preliminary and unimportant se ...