Leunig on not having goals

This passage sums up perfectly how I feel about life...

"Ive never had any goals. I've had non specific, generalized hopes. I followed my conviction as a child. I did the thing that delighted me, that I really wanted to do. If the teacher told me to write an essay, Id go home and catch tadpoles and spend the night studying them, instead of doing the essay. I intuitively knew as a child what I must do. And this far that has carried me. The things I've always dreamed of are now coming to fruition. I want to grow olive trees and grapevines in the peace of the country. I love the presence of the wombats, kangaroos and trees. I want to paint and write and make primitive sculptures out of rocks. " (In their image - Contemporary Australian cartoonists, Anne Turner pg 174)

Of course thats very easy to say when you are one of Australia's most loved and successful cartoonists. But it gives me comfort to know that Leunig failed year 12, dropped out of University,  worked in a western suburbs meat works, and attended Maribyrnong High School.