Edging Ahead

It’s an agonizing time when you feel your peers edging ahead and the cool people aren’t seeking you out and almost every day somebody announces a cool new job, or a big romance, or the receipt of an awesome gift, some fresh kill from the jungle, and it depresses you. You don’t want to be a loser. And you sense the fact that, in life, so much — so very much — is pure luck, no matter what they want you to think, and an angel may knock at your door in the person of a beggar, and you say No, and that No will resound for the rest of your born days. It is agonizing to think about.

Garrison Keillor

[via Salon, HT: Randall Friesen]