Quote by BRIANNA WIEST - Deepstash

Nobody-not one of us-knows "what we are doing with our lives." We can summarise the big picture, not yet. We don't know what we'll be doing in 5 years from now, and pretending that we can predict that isn't being responsible or ambitious, its cutting ourselves off and living according to our inner navigation systems as aooped to the narrative we once thought would be right.

BRIANNA WIEST

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