All of us have to learn how to invent our lives

“All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind (Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and Imagination), 2004.