I’m thinking about my proposals for next year. I think this year was incredible for my personal resolutions. I’ve built and changed a lot and learned so much more. In general, my life is becoming the kind I had designed before.

But I’m also thinking about how the most important people started their projects. For example, I’m currently reading Madame Bovary, and I thought about who would have been able to start (just start) such a large (and seemingly impossible) project from scratch. Whoever created something important in the history of humankind started one day—a random day in some month. Did they think they were going to become important people?