It’s like the Karate Kid. You do menial labor, so it seems, over a long period of time, and in the end you have something useful to show for it. You are developing your human skills. But it’s frustrating because it’s so hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I was getting guidance, and that helped give me hope about the light. Hope that I wasn’t just spinning my wheels. But maybe in the end you have to walk into the light all by yourself. You have to approach the light by yourself. Maybe the approach is the “walking into.” It’s not just a last second thing.