Every single person, pretty much, is taught what they're supposed to do: go to school, get a job, find someone to love, get married, have kids, raise the kids, and then die. Nobody questions that. What if you want to do something different?
Interpretation
This quote encourages individuals to question societal norms and pursue their own unique paths.
Aziz Ansari highlights the conventional life script that most people follow, which includes education, career, love, family, and ultimately mortality. He urges us to consider what it means to challenge this norm and explore alternative ways of living, suggesting that fulfillment may lie outside the traditional paths that society lays out for us.
In practice
During a graduation speech to encourage students to forge their own paths.
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have not the slightest feeling for seclusion; for solitude, I maintain, when joined with a quiet contemplation of nature, a serene and conscious faith in creation and the Creator, and a few vexations from outside is the only school for a mind of lofty endowment.
That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.
The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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