Action! Having been a bit of a navel gazer all my life -- too much contemplation and not enough gettin' bizzy -- I have much to learn on that score. For a person like me, the question becomes: How does one convert the wonderful food for thought in the essay into an agenda for action? This is the existential dilemma, solvable only by the individual himself.
The essay called to mind a favorite few lines by the poet John Donne, written in 1620:
On a huge hill, Cragged and steep,
Truth stands,
And hee that will reach her,
About must, and about must goe,
And what th'hills suddenes resists, winne so,
Yet strive so, that before age, death's twilight,
Thy soule reste, for none can worke in that night.
Thanks, beckett