All signs

It’s a new year, so let’s take stock. Where did you come from? Where are you going? Our lives are not isolated moments. They are connected events — sometimes obvious, sometimes not, but all the result of cause and effect. First, our parents make choices then we become independent and make our own choices. (Even if you do nothing — not to decide is to decide.) How did you get to where you are today? Did you walk, run, fly first class? They say a rich person is not the one who has the most but the one who needs the least. Personally I’m with Oscar Wilde: “It’s better to have a steady permanent income than to be fascinating.” (He also said, “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”)