Nothing doing, nothing done

Look, I understand that inside me there is a greedy, gluttonous, lazy, hippie — you know? I understand that free time is probably my enemy. […] There’s a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, and smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons, and old movies. I could easily do that. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit, that guy.

— Anthony Bourdain in Sean Woods's, Anthony Bourdain on Writing, Food, Adventure, and Finding a Calling, Men's Journal, 2014

We/I spend our lives trying to outwit that negative impulse.

I live that. My life, at it’s simplest, is the pursuit of a life that is interesting; but at every turn I have to fight my worst, most wasteful impulses that would see me do nothing and go nowhere. In spite of the fact that I don’t think it necessary: I want to be more than I know how to be.