Wake Up And Find

It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don't do it consciously.  And the time comes one morning when you wake up and find that you have become irrevocably what you were preparing all this time to be.

-- Katherine Anne Porter (1890 - 1980), American journalist, essayist, short story writer, and novelist, Writers at Work interview (1963)