This is Water (and This is the Practice)

The most obvious thing… is the hardest to see.

Sometimes the words we need most aren't complicated—they're just honest.

David Foster Wallace's 2005 commencement address, This is Water, is one of those rare pieces of writing that stays with you. It doesn’t shout. It doesn’t try to impress. It simply tells the truth about how easy it is to miss our own lives while we’re busy being right, rushed, or abs…