Shimoda flew one passenger, then came over and sat on the grass as I worked. "Richard, how can you hope to impress the world when everybody else works for their living and you run around all irresponsible from day to day in your crazy biplane, selling passenger rides?" He was testing me again. "There's a question you are gonna get more than once." "Well, Donald, Part One: I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy." "OK. Part Two:" "Part Two: Everybody else is free to do whatever they feel tike doing, for a living. Part Three: Responsible is Able to Respond, able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is . . . ?" ". . . ourselves," Don said, replying for the imaginary crowd of seekers sitting around. "We don't even have to answer to ourselves, if e don't feel like it .
