”Get it into your thick head that jokes are just like life. Things that begin badly, end badly. Everything’s fine in the middle, it’s the end you need to worry about.”
-László Krasznahorkai, Satantango
When we want to start something, whether it is a novel project, a film project, or a new career venture, the first thing we notice is that it becomes a bad idea because, as human beings, we resist doing work that we perceive as bad.
Let’s say you finish half of a novel and you’re in the middle and when procrastination strikes, we have the kind of feeling that “I think it’s not good enough”
That’s the point of our work of a lifetime.
It’s not enough because we need to do a lot of work on it.
We don’t run in a marathon when we quit in the middle, it’s the end of the finish line that you worry about.
Just like what Haruki Murakami said, “Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life—-and for me, for writing as well.”
Mark Tacastacas 
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