It is far better to be driven mad by vision than to go mad for lack of it. Yet one or the other awaits us all.

The sense of possibility is one of life's major gifts. It makes all the struggle valuable. But striving for vision will bring a form of madness, a level of focus that helps you keep going in the hard times. A willingness to endure, to continue, after a rest perhaps, but always to continue. This toil leads somewhere. It is the mythic path.

But its nemesis lurks: the madness that accompanies lack of vision. This madness dulls the sharpness of being, results in the status quo, and puts a negative, hopeless connotation on the word "dream."

It may have been mad of Odysseus to leave Calypso's island. The struggle ahead of him was epic. But his vision would not let him rest. And the alternative was worse. The alternative was madness combined with stasis, resulting in a world of shrinking possibilities.

Ever forward.

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