Life and Times? (Piper at the gates of dawn)

Walking home last Monday evening.

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. Lewis Carroll 

Feeling damaged today by how accurately this quotation sums up my adult life to this point, and by the related observation that 'winning' is crucially different from merely 'coming first'.

The consolation is the following, more whimsical—or should that be mimsical?—pun by the same author:

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.  Lewis Carroll

Postscript: the soundtrack for this piece was to have been Underlying Depression, but life is much more nuanced than that, and we all need some more hope...