Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it – that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing – an actor, a writer – I am a person who does things – I write, I act – and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.
Stephen Fry (via coooode)
When I was little, I wanted to be a paleontologist, astronaut android.
And then when I got a bit older, I realised that the astronaut part was unlikely to work out, that I’d lost my obsession with dinosaurs and it was highly improbable that I would become an android.
So, I decided, in the absence of actually having any idea what I wanted to do with my life, that I wanted to be content.
And that’s pretty much it.
My mum sometimes tells me that I’m too content and I suppose I do have a startling lack of ambition, but being super-ambitious isn’t for everyone. I have my cousin to be the ambitious, driven version of me – so far it’s working out okay.