Mel Gibson, Miss America 2004 Ericka Dunlap, and others with Rage make any and all fallback positions nonexistent. You can’t say “Well, I’m going to go to that school, or to that city, or to that job, for six months and if it doesn’t work out, I’ll return home and go back to work at Wal-Mart.” If you truly believe you can retreat to less than you desire; that you can stop trying; that you can accept failure; that you can spend the rest of your life existing instead of living, then you lack the level of passion and commitment I call Rage. |