There are infinite possibilities. But “select all” is not one of our options. It never has been.

It’s the anything/everything concept. You can do anything, but you can’t do everything. You can have anything, but you can’t have everything.

And yet, we have greater awareness of “everything” than ever before. Between technology, travel, and the movement of goods, all the world is on display — often with little reminder of our finite time to experience it.

So we might be tempted to go for broke … to see how much we can pack into one day, one year, one lifetime. But even at pace, that approach will never feel like enough.

Consider: we don’t sprint through the Met and we don’t skim a Mary Oliver poem.

No.

We savor.

Moment by moment.

We won’t experience all of it, but we’ll definitely experience some of it.

And that will be enough.