Life: Loosen Your Death-Grip on the Steering Wheel and Enjoy the Thrill of It - Quote by Marianne Paige

"You have no idea what you're doing yet you make all these crucial decisions every day. It's like driving at night with the headlights off and you have to keep going full-speed because that's how life is. You try to think through every  possible action and outcome, like which college to pick? And which job to go for and which supermarket to go to today and should you really buy that pint of Ben & Jerry's? But you don't know and you're a fool if you think you do. The 'best decision' may actually be the worst one. Your top choice college may send you head-first into a spiraling depression because the only person that could have helped was at the closest community college. It's like driving down a road you thought you knew and you think you're supposed to turn left at the next stoplight but what you don't know is that you missed the stoplight five miles back and there's no way to turn around. Our perspectives are so narrow that there's no possible way any one of us could consciously make the right decision about anything, yet we still try because it gives us some false sense of control, like we actually have a say in what happens to us. You can choose what you do but you can't choose how that ultimately affects your life and it's terrifying. You don't know how one simple choice could throw your whole life off balance. So this is what I'm saying: stop trying so goddamn hard to make everything work out perfectly. Just live your life. Stress out about it once in a while but then loosen your death-grip on the steering wheel and enjoy the thrill of it."

-Marianna Paige