blessed but unmotivated
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Toronto, 2017.02.28
Here's an interesting article outlining all the things Canada's got going for it, and all the nothing we're doing with the opportunity.
As one south-Asian immigrant in this country told me, "What holds this country back is cottage country. Everyone lives to escape, doing just enough work to scrape by and get out to ride back and forth in their powerboat."