Plato attributes these words to Socrates: "The unexamined life is not worth living." I am inclined to agree, though I'd rather not end up taking the hemlock express as the latter did.
I find myself wondering what good I can accomplish in this world. For years I've been absorbing much in the course of my readings, and while I feel that my understanding of this world and the people in it have improved, it won't amount to much of a legacy in the end unless I act upon it. Is that what we strive for? Legacies, to leave our marks upon this world to prove that we once walked its surface?
Grandiose visions aside, perhaps it's just as well to take small steps and see what emerges from the complexity. And so, with a few words I sally forth. I might yet be a butterfly amid the chaos of the forces for good.