Dear Emmy:

“How does the bear leave the cage?” – a bear that has given up on escaping the cage, a hopeless bear, no longer hears the call of the wild: that irresistible, natural desire to roam, to investigate, to discover what’s out there.

“I didn’t learn to roam far” – roaming animals don’t learn to roam, they just do it, a result of inborn instinct.

“How do you leave when the tries haven’t worked, you end up right where you started?” – look at why it didn’t work out before and leave differently this time.

“How does it end?” – it ends with death, whether you stay or leave. But really living, existing beyond survival, giving up the dullness and becoming magnificent, really is about hearing that call of the wild and following it, in a way that’s right for you.

anita