Consequently, the next step is selection. Pick horizons aligned with your values—learning a craft, healing a relationship, serving a community—and break them into near and far markers. Then, adopt modest rituals: a daily page, a consistent run, a weekly reflection where you ask how the pursuit is reshaping you. As the milestones accumulate, the horizon shifts from a distant line to a lived lineage of choices. In that accumulation, your effort and your story become inseparable—and the horizon, at last, belongs to you. [...]