I am in search of good days, but no more or less than you and the person standing next to you are. I am also in search of enough good days to make a life, maybe even a good life.

"We live our lives in search," wrote Frederick Buechner once. We search, he wrote "for a self to be, for other selves to love, and for work to do." These are not new things that we moderns are searching for; they are as old as the hills.

Robert Benson, A Good Life