“I am here because I am here and not somewhere else…  I have found no serious reason for wanting to be elsewhere, though I might like to be elsewhere at times.  The fact remains that elsewhere is not where I am, or where I am likely to be…  The point is that it does not much matter where you are, as long as you can be at peace about it and live your life.  The place certainly will not live my life for me, I have found that out.  I have to live it for myself.”
(Thomas Merton)