Whatever options are available to you at any given moment. Choose the one that contains more excitement than any other, even if it's just a little bit more. Act on it to the best of your ability, taking it as far as you can until you can take it no further. Do this with integrity.
OVERHEARD ON THE 14:07 FROM PARAPARAUMU
—no but the thing about rivers is
they don't actually merge, not really,
one just stops being itself
and the other one pretends it was always that wide.
—That's not true.
—It's basically marriage.
—It's basically wrong. They braid.
They keep their temperatures for kilometres.
You can see it from the air, the cold thread
inside the warm one, refusing.
—So what happens eventually?
—Eventually the sea.
—That's not an answer.
—It's the only one.